Word: joey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meanest mobsters in the U.S. is a small, tight-lipped hood from Brooklyn named Joseph ("Crazy Joey") Gallo. In 1959, when he met Robert Kennedy, then counsel for Senator John Mc-Clellan's rackets-investigating committee, Crazy Joey examined Kennedy's office rug and offered his professional opinion: "It would be nice for a crap game...
While Crazy Joey was on trial, the cops rounded up 14 members of the vending-machine racketeering mob that he had organized in Brooklyn, including his father, Albert Gallo, his two brothers, Larry Gallo and Albert Gallo Jr., and such assorted fish as Joseph Musumeci, Larry ("Big Lollypop") Carna, Joseph ("Little Lollypop") Carna and Frank ("Punchy") Illiano. The cops made the arrests-the technical charge was consorting with criminals, that is, each other-after word got around that the Gallo mob was about to declare a shooting war on a rival Brooklyn gang headed by an olive oil distributor named...
First game, to be sure, was fairly close: Whitey Ford gave up two hits, Cincinnati's Jim O'Toole gave up two home runs as the Yankees won 2-0. And in the second, Cincinnati's Joey Jay pitched a neat four-hitter to square the series. That set the stage for Yankee Outfielder Roger Maris. Emotionally and physically exhausted after his season-long assault on Babe Ruth's home-run record, Slugger Maris was still looking for his first Series hit when he came to bat in the ninth inning of the third game. With...
...other new sitchcoms come close to the icky standards of Ichabod. Actress Shirley Booth has been caught in an NBC series called Hazel, based on the Saturday Evening Post's cartoon maid. She place-kicks footballs and tweaks the ears of her boss's clients. The Joey Bishop Show (NBC) presents its deadpan comic star as a small-time flack who is not as slick or tricky as the world around him. But the whole show is a little too cold and clanny...
...statistics were impressive. Detroit's Norm Cash (.361) took the American League batting championship. Pittsburgh's Roberto Clemente (.351) won the National League crown. Top American League pitcher was New York's Whitey Ford (25-4); big winners in the National League were Cincinnati's Joey Jay and Milwaukee's Warren Spahn, with 21 victories each...