Word: levinson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Drill. But last year things began to change. Los Angeles heard rumors of a struggle for power, a merging of talent. Some said Mickey Cohen might end up as the city's No. 1 business man. Benny began to be seen with one George Levinson, a Chicagoan with wide experience who had come West to enter the profitable nylon black market...
...Somebody just took a drill and punched those holes," said Benny. The cops removed the door and shook half a dozen slugs out on the floor. Benny doubled up with laughter, handed out cigars and went off to Chicago for a vacation. So did his friend Levinson...
...August they came back, went about their business as if nothing had happened. Late one night last week they prepared for an important conference in a blue-walled, chintz-curtained Hollywood apartment. Benny slipped a cocked Mauser under the bedsheets and hid a .32 in the closet. Levinson laid down a Gladstone bag containing two sawed-off shotguns. As it turned out, these arrangements proved sadly inadequate...
...minutes after a knock sounded at the door, Levinson was dead on the floor with three slugs in his body. Benny the Meatball was out on the dark street yelling, "Help, help, help!" Five bullets had gone right through him, and he soon fell dead. Residents of the apartment looked out and saw a black automobile drive away...
...Tobias Levinson...