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...born Allen Stewart Konigsberg in Flatbush. His father, Martin Konigsberg, had a light brush with show biz - he once served as a waiter at Sammy's Bowery Follies - but spent most of his life dabbling in the jewelry business. A poor boy in the urban maze is usually a constant dreamer. Sometimes he dreams of sex: young Allen Stewart, as Woody recalls, was preoccupied with girls whose bodies wouldn't quit probably because his own seemed to give up when he was 14. Sometimes he dreams of assuming authority - or flouting it. In high school, Allen tried...
...Manhattan district attorney's office calls Harold ("Kayo") Konigsberg "one of the biggest loan sharks in the country," but Kayo deserves more notoriety than that. Singlehanded, with consummate gall, he has been carrying on a blatant attempt to make a travesty of U.S. criminal justice. When he went on trial last December on ten counts of conspiracy, extortion and assault, he deliberately attempted to turn his hearing before New York County Judge Abraham Gellinoff into such a circus that he could later claim a mistrial...
Because of his two previous felony convictions, Hoodlum Konigsberg faced a maximum sentence of 174 years. But Kayo decided to keep on stalling. On the day of the sentencing, he launched into another four-hour speech-this time assaulting the English language along with other targets. "It is because of people like you, Mr. Court," he said to Gellinoff, "that justice has deterianated. It is bringing totarianism here. The court made 49 errors in law, and you foreclosed me in getting a fair trial. I will not kowtail to you or anyone else." Having thus blathered on, he next stood...
...bodies of two gangland rub-out victims. Last week, Judge Gellinoff finally sentenced him, not to 174 years but to 30 to 44. He still faces trial on twelve counts of contempt of court as a result of his trial performance. But it may be that Stool Pigeon Konigsberg has finally found a kind of talking that makes a difference...
...Franklin Konigsberg of New York City, who own Sylvie, are supposed to take Fahlstrom's original arrangement of these items on the panel and rearrange them to suit their personality or mood. Explains Fahlstrom: "I want them to participate in it, to interpret it. In the present situation, people want to discover themselves. They live less and less by a set of dogmas, political or religious. They probe the experience and standards to which they are exposed and take only what is useful to them...