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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trial, his pals killed off so many witnesses that Al was released. After that he prospered; the waterfront offered, as it still does, wonderful opportunities in pilferage, shakedowns, strikebreaking and extortion. He met a lot of other rising young men: Al Capone, Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter, Lucky Luciano. He was often arrested (murder, 1928; murder, 1932; murder, 1933), but never convicted. A stool pigeon named John Bazzano, who took an interest in him in 1932, was found cut into stew meat in a burlap...
...This becomes apparent when even the writers of Czechoslovakia, as calm and conventional as any of their countrymen, quietly explain why Poland and Hungary revolted. The startling fact, most encouraging to the West, is that when men in Eastern Europe begin to challenge communist assumptions they apply democratic principles, often couched with eloquence reminiscent of the great debates of the rights of man carried on in the late 18th century...
...Often enough the importer does not bother to import the radios-he has them intercepted in Bangkok and sold at still higher profits. Sometimes the radios really reach Laos (marked with the universally recognized symbol of clasped hands in front of a U.S. flag). But before Laos' primitive customs guards can catch up and impose an import tax, the radios are smuggled back across the Mekong River and shipped into Bangkok for sale at handsome profits. Laotian officials, either out of confusion or collusion, have granted orders for some items that seem of questionable utility in a country that...
Studio One: Psychiatric gimmicks have become such glib clichés on TV, as in most modern fiction, that writers are too often exposed with" their own craft ebbing. Last week The Deaf Heart performed the rare feat of tackling a psychiatric subject with freshness and a driving sense of drama that never marred its authenticity. Based on an actual case in Minneapolis, it was the story of a girl who went psychosomatically deaf in emotional flight from her role as the ears of a deaf father, mother and brother. It unfolded like a mystery story, beginning with the girl...
...auction catalogues, a network of watchful employees and the tips (as well as enthusiasms) of his well-heeled collector friends. His behind-the-scenes maneuvering reached a climax when he bought the Robinsons' collection without seeing anything more than a catalogue (though his handsome Greek wife Eugenie, who often drops in at galleries, did fly to Los Angeles under an assumed name for a firsthand look...