Word: mickey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recently Citizen Mickey decided it was time people knew about the corruption in their police force. Two vice-squad officers, he declared righteously, had tried to shake him down for $20,000; furthermore, one of the guys had been protecting Brenda Allen's plush call-house (TIME, July 11) and Mickey knew where he could get wire recordings to prove it. Brenda went to jail largely on the say-so of another vice-squad sergeant and a handsome policewoman named Audre Davis. Then Policewoman Audre accused her friend the vice sergeant of being a burglar...
Baby Sitter. With cops ratting on each other so fast, it was hard for an honest hood to decide which law to work with. A grand jury went to work. Mickey knew things were out of hand when State Attorney General Fred Howser sent a special agent to be his bodyguard...
...need no baby sitter," growled Mickey. Mickey never carries a gun himself, but he has confidence in the carload of heavily armed helpers who follow his Cadillac. Howser's Special Agent Cooper told Mickey's torpedoes to take in a ball game, or something. Mickey was in no position to argue...
...last week, Mickey visited his haberdashery on Sunset Strip, handled a piddling $7,500 in bets, and wound up at Sherry's, a nearby gin mill patronized by racketeers, movie stars, detectives and high-priced prostitutes. Mickey settled as always in Booth 12, which commands a view of all exits and entrances. One of his boys picked up a movie doll named "Dee" David, and brought her over. Just before 4 a.m. Mickey got ready to leave...
...They're Animals." Standing in the bright floodlights at the entrance, Mickey made a fine target. A burst of shotgun fire came from behind a signboard across the street. Special Agent Cooper, the man who was going to guard Mickey, toppled over with two slugs in his belly. Miss David was hit three times. A Cohen lieutenant dropped with a slug in his kidney, screaming. Only Mickey stood silent, without moan or shout. He had been drilled through the right shoulder...