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Public Record. As a prosecutor, he piled up an imposing list of convictions: Irving ("Waxey Gordon") Wexler (income tax evasion); "Lucky" Luciano (prostitution); Jimmy ("The Honest Blacksmith") Hines (Tammany graft); ex-Stock Exchange President Richard Whitney (grand larceny). Along with the bigwigs, he put away scores of smaller fry in the policy, loan shark' and extortion rackets...
...obtuse," wrote Peg, "so I assume that this refers to some news [Sinatra's meeting with Panderer Lucky Luciano] which deviated from the laudatory and purposely rapturous trash which had become standard Sinatra publicity as turned in by the saloon, movie, radio and gambling house journalists...
...snarled Lucky Luciano, exiled ex-superpimp of New York's vice rackets, to reporters in Rome. "Sure I had Bugsy Siegel rubbed out. ... If American papers say it's true, it's true. . . . Anything more?" he added bitterly. "No baby killings?" Later in the week, while sunning on the Isle of Capri, Lucky had additional cause for bitterness: some "Capri crooks" made off with his expensive camera. Muttered Luciano: "I'm terribly humiliated...
...prison." Hearst's Manhattan movie critic Lee Mortimer (who recently took a couple of punches from Frank Sinatra) assured his readers that he knew Bugsy. Bugsy's death warrant, he wrote with an air of absolute authority, was signed last winter in Havana by Procurer Charles ("Lucky") Luciano...
...conceded that this was probably not the best way to strike a blow at race prejudice.) In the Hearstpapers-which painstakingly reviewed Frankie's association with left-wing groups, his 4-F draft status, his crooning activities during the war, his meeting with ex-super-pimp Charles "Lucky" Luciano in Havana-little-noted Columnist Mortimer suddenly attained the stature of a Dreyfus, and a fortune's worth of publicity...