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...followed on the stand by four other call girls and one erstwhile madam, most of them reluctant to repeat their stories in public. The most unusual witness, however, was Richard Short, an ex-convict, thief, he-doxy and convicted pimp. Short once went to Jelke, he said, to get some customers for his fourth wife, Prostitute Pat Thompson. Mickey helpfully supplied the telephone number of one Ben Lewis, an old friend of Pat Ward's. "Mickey told us Lewis was a high roller, likely to go to $500 or more if a girl treated him right...
...Formerly called "Little Jack," sawed-off (5 ft. 4 in.) Jake was retagged by Hearst newsmen shortly after the death of his brother, Harry ("Greasy Thumb") Guzik, a pimp; originally nicknamed for his habit of wetting his thumb while peeling bills off a horse-choking bankroll...
Privileged & Perverse. About the same time last spring that the Montesi case hit the headlines, another girl named Adelaide Montorzi died, obscurely, after babbling deliriously, in a Rome hospital. The police thought that Adelaide might have been kicked and beaten by a man, probably a pimp. While following up their leads, the police found that Adelaide Montorzi had frequented several call houses, one of them a decently furnished apartment in a respectable district of Rome. Watching two of these places, the cops identified two furtive but highly important visitors: Communist Giuseppe Sotgiu, president of the Rome provincial council...
...sensational trial of Oleomargarine Heir Minot F. ("Mickey") Jelke III, convicted last year of being pimp for glamorous New York prostitutes, Manhattan General Sessions Judge Francis L. Valente barred newsmen from the courtroom. Judge Valente imposed his press ban after ruling that "extensive press coverage to a case of this kind is catering to vulgar sensationalism" (TIME, Feb 16, 1953). Manhattan dailies promptly handed Valente a failing mark in journalism by giving much more elaborate, tabloid-style coverage to the "mystery" trial than they might have given had the trial been open...
Henze's plot takes the old story of Manon Lescaut forward to the Paris of 1950 and turns its willful heroine into a strumpet and murderess, her brother into a pimp and thief. Henze's music is largely in a clangorous twelve-tone technique...