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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Laughing Matter | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Period for a Period Piece? | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 2, 1955 | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 28, 1950 | 8/28/1950 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 9, 1950 | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

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