Word: mobster
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York leather manufacturer, she got her title with her second husband, Italy's Count Carlo di Frasso. A fervent believer in the strenuous life, she once hired prizefighters to entertain her guests! joined Cinemactor Gary Cooper on a big-game safari into the African jungle, with the late Mobster Bugsy Siegel set out in a schooner to search for a buried treasure off Costa Rica. When death came, the Countess was in full re galia: a full-length mink coat covered her, $500,000 worth of jewels were on her person and in her luggage...
...called them The Rhythm Boys and featured them on tour. Says Bing: "We laid them out in sections-we fractured them." Bing adds that he also fractured himself with too much booze, too little work, and too many unlikely companions. He woke up after one binge in a mobster hideout with police machine guns playing chopsticks on the door...
Died. Anthony R. ("Tony") Gizzo, 52 Kansas City underworld bigshot; of a heart attack; in Dallas, where he had gone to visit son Robert Gizzo, jailed on a narcotics robbery charge. A sidekick of Political Mobster Charles Binaggio, who got his in a 1950 gang killing, Gizzo was named by the Senate crime investigators as the Capone mob's Kansas City gambling liaison...
...this sort of thing was not entirely distasteful to some firms. Jarka Vice President Captain Douglas Yates put it succinctly when he explained why he hired one Albert Ackalitis, a mobster with a police record as long as a towline. "The guiding thought in hiring Ackalitis," said Captain Yates, "frankly, was to have on that pier some order and discipline, as I call it, amongst...
...helped out in the syndicate's negotiations with Howard Hughes and was hired at $15,000 a year as a labor-relations consultant for RKO. At one point in his career, according to the testimony of "Cherry Nose" Gioe, Korshak had helped to arrange parole for the Chicago mobster and Al Capone crony...