Word: peddlers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ginzburg also published a scatological newsletter called Liaison and a book, The Housewife's Handbook on Selective Promiscuity, written by a promiscuous housewife. U.S. District Attorney Drew J. T. O'Keefe agreed with the defense contention that Ginzburg was not the ordinary, back-alley sort of smut-peddler. "He's worse," said O'Keefe, and asked the court for "the most substantial sentence it possibly can give." Ginzburg said he would appeal...
Still a mystery is the whereabouts of the bodies. Fortnight ago, a picture peddler appeared again, this time exhibiting photographs of two coffins, marked Ngo Dinh Diem and Ngo Dinh Nhu, on trestles, with an unidentified army officer standing near by. Other prints showed the coffins, decorated with flowers and candles, beside two freshly dug graves, and a European priest in the foreground along with a Vietnamese man and woman said to be Diem relatives. The site was said to be a cemetery within the compound of Joint General Staff Headquarters...
Troubled Tightwad. For all his money, though, Genovese was a tightwad. Fearful that members of his dope ring might cheat him, he mixed into narcotics dealings that he might well have handled by remote control. In 1957 a Genovese dope peddler arrested in Manhattan got sore because the boss failed to come to his rescue with a bail bond and a lawyer. The prisoner got even by spilling the gang's secrets; two years later Genovese and fourteen other hoods were convicted of violating federal narcotics laws. The boss was sentenced to 15 years in prison...
...hired Edward Bennett Williams, one of the nation's shrewdest trial lawyers. Williams promptly petitioned for a new trial. During their original appearance in court, he argued, the defense had not had access to the prosecution's notes on the pretrial testimony of the disgruntled dope peddler. In 1957, Williams pointed out, the Supreme Court had ruled in Jencks v. U.S. that a defendant in a criminal proceeding is entitled to see reports of pretrial testimony...
...British are famous for their toleration of eccentrics, but this can be intolerable to the eccentric himself if he is a dedicated exhibitionist. Bernard Kops has been a poor Jewish evacuee from the blitzed East End of London, a waiter, an actor in terrible road companies, a book peddler, a songwriter, a bum in London and Paris and tout for a brothel in Tangier. He has told all in a sort of breathless antistyle that can be the most irritating of all styles. Every frightful thing that happened to him (and the rare pleasant event) is told in exactly...