Word: mobster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carmine De Sapio's professed disassociation with the mobster elements around Tammany came as no surprise; that TIME should print it was a surprise. Of course, if De Sapio is on the level, then TIME did the public a service with its cover story...
...fast, offbeat little yarn about a magazine reporter who is handed a money belt with $5,000 and told to sink into the New York City underworld in order to write an exposé. Both the underworld and the police promptly mistake Reporter Dan Lewis for a mobster from Kansas City. After taking a brutal beating, he is put to bed by a brunette bit of fluff who soon climbs in with him. Dan becomes a bodyguard for a gambling czar, kills a man, takes over a bookie ring of his own. He all but forgets about reporting...
...short, Miami Story is just another gangstereotype-with one modern improvement. Mobster Flagg, a little Caesar who has abdicated in favor of law & order, gets evidence against his old friends with the latest thing in eavesdropping. Not content with keyhole-squint and transom-peer, with tape recorder or even wiretap. Flagg triumphantly secretes in the walls of the villain's office a complete closed-channel television transmitter...
...Mobster Albert Anastasia, 51, onetime lord high executioner of Murder, Inc., was stripped of his U.S. citizenship (and was thus set up for deportation to Italy) by a Newark federal judge on a relatively petty count. The court's finding: in applying for legal U.S. residence and citizenship, Anastasia twice neglected to report four arrests (three for murder, one for felonious assault), plus a 1923 conviction for gun-toting...
...foundling who has searched all his life for his parents, Ambrose thinks he has found them at last. Actually, he has run into a couple of shills for an underworld magnate (George Mathews), who is planning to heist the diamond and figures that Ambrose is the perfect patsy. The mobster tries to get his victim to "borrow" the stone and cut it at home, but meanwhile the women in the caper unexpectedly drift into a nest-building mood over the poor motherless boy, and decide to put him wise to the double-cross. How Comedian Skelton cracks the conspiracy...