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...Window. When the mobs syndicated, after Prohibition, Al became "The Law"-his Brooklyn mob handled executions for the chieftains of the underworld. Some victims went into the Hudson in concrete kimonos. Some were buried in quicklime in a Lyndhurst, NJ. chicken yard that the boys used as a private cemetery. In all, Al was credited with 63 corpses during this phase of his career. He never paid a day in jail for them. Abe ("Kid Twist") Reles sang about Murder Inc., in 1940, but Reles, though locked in a Coney Island hotel room and guarded by cops, somehow managed...
...University), but preferred to build houses for people who felt, as one contemporary critic put it, that "there is something wonderfully captivating in the idea of a battlemented castle." Destruction of his Walnut Wood would leave only one other of Davis' major Gothic mansions still standing and unaltered: Lyndhurst, the marble residence of the late Jay Gould in Tarrytown, N.Y., now owned by Gould's daughter, the Duchess of Talleyrand...
...TIME erred. Sir Timothy, head of the House of Eden, leads a squire's life in Lyndhurst, Hampshire, has written several books (Five Dogs and Two More, The Tribulations of a Baronet), finds time to teach in a girls' school and dash off occasional oil paintings. For his portrait of Brother Anthony...
Died. William Thomas Ellis, 76, whose weekly "Sunday School Lesson" is the second oldest syndicated feature (begun in 1897)* in the U.S. press; in Lyndhurst...
Light Finger. In Lyndhurst, N.J., perplexed officials were industriously looking for the thief who made off with every one of the colored bulbs on the 18-ft. community Christmas tree standing near police headquarters...