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...Brooklyn, mop-haired, zoot-suited Barry Jacobs had every opportunity to get sharpened up. His father, a bail bondsman, not only made a lucrative career out of springing prostitutes for onetime Crime King "Lucky" Luciano, but turned state's evidence when the roof fell in and got off without a bruise. Barry, however, was both stupid and unlucky. He had hardly started a career as a holdup man at the age of 16 before he was nabbed by the cops. At 18 he found himself doing time in a reformatory. Last week, out on parole and 20, he swaggered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Give It to Me | 8/11/1952 | See Source »

...used to be simply Gheorghe Gheorghiu until he spent so much time in Rumania's Dej prison in pre-Red days that he tacked Dej on to his name, a Balkan equivalent of calling oneself Alphonse Capone-Alcatraz or Lucky Luciano-Sing Sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUMANIA: Ana on the Slippery Slope | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

...strictly a fan picture. But the power of the press comes through. Rienzi gets his. But then, so do Maxie and Sam. The only one who seems to come out on top is Ethel Barrymore, and after all, she is needed for that new movie on Lucky Luciano...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Deadline, U.S.A. | 4/25/1952 | See Source »

...attractions. If you have seen and enjoyed Ingrid Bergman's "Joan of Arc" by all means go to the Shubert and have a good burst of indignation at the inhumanity of humanity. Or if you enjoy seeing a pigtailed, mortal-saint attacked in her bedroom by Lucky Luciano's nephew, see the "Child of the Morning's" last...

Author: By Laurence D. Savadove, | Title: The Playgoer | 11/21/1951 | See Source »

...Father Luciano Negrini and the girl for whom he had doffed his priestly habit (TIME, Aug. 13) began a new career last week-selling ready-tied neckties. The Super Record Tiemakers of Bologna announced that they were sending Negrini and Claire Young around to retailers and rural fairs in a sound truck to peddle their wares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Priest & the Girl (II) | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

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