Word: minks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trial had barely begun when Carbo startled the courtroom by throwing in the towel. He admitted that he was the undercover manager for Welterweight Pug Jim Peters in one fight, and that he had been the real power behind the stable ostensibly managed by Hymie ("The Mink") Wallman (Heavyweight Alex Miteff, Featherweight Ike Chestnut). More damning yet was Carbo's admission that he had been the behind-the-scenes matchmaker for the welterweight title elimination fight in March 1958 between Virgil Akins and Isaac Logart...
...best things in The Mansion are the old things: Flem pulling a dirty stratagem to latch on to more property, the heartbreaking description of the raw deal that led ignorant Mink Snopes to murder a rich landholder, the devastating characterization of Huey Long-like Politician Clarence Snopes, who rises from rural bully to candidate for Congress. If the Snopes family is unforgettable, it is because Author Faulkner understands them as deeply as he hates them. And like so many hates, it seems like a first cousin to love. As always, the Faulkner writing has its quota of awkwardness, irritation, downright...
...real-life counterparts work out of the country's 5,000 agencies (and earn a collective income of about $250 million a year), not out of swank bars and seedy clip joints. They spend more time at plant protection or gathering over-the-transom divorce evidence than avenging mink-clad corpses. TV Eyes, says San Francisco's crew-cut professional Eye, Hal Lipsett, are altogether too tough. They ignore the real Eye's tricky devices and subtle techniques-the telephone tap, the hidden recorder, the infrared camera, the fishhook microphone (which can be cast as lightly...
...Mink-Stole Gift. When it arrived, Miraglia headed for the Waldorf, ran up a $73.33 overnight bill (champagne, breakfast in his room). From there, using $57 of his own money, he bought a round-trip air ticket to Hilton's Queen Elizabeth Hotel in Montreal, in three days proceeded to charge nearly $300 in hotel, restaurant and car rental bills. As a parting gift for a blonde who had done the town with him, he presented her with a $675 mink stole - using the card, of course...
...first-night hoopla at Munich's Gloria Palast was pure Hollywood-grunting cops wrestling with crowds, limousines bulging with black-tied men and mink-draped starlets. As for the movie, it was a blatant rehash of Grand Hotel (1932). It was, sneered the Süddeutsche Zeitung, "pretentious kitsch [trash], a perfection of mediocrity, apotheosis of the single-entendre. Everywhere the box-office sledge hammer. In short, a German film...