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...Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee has held hearings on organized crime. A parade of witnesses, many of them for- mer mobsters, testifying with immunity, have sketched the outlines of gambling, theft and corruption on which crime empires are built. Last week big Vinnie Teresa, a rotund (300 Ibs.) loan shark now serving concurrent prison terms for stealing securities and car theft, provided a Runyonesque retrospective of his life and crimes...
...officer in the Piranha Co. [a Boston loan-shark operation]. The name Piranha Co. was taken from the fish of that name, which is a maneater. We had a live one in a fishbowl in the place. We wanted to be known as a tough outfit: if anybody was slow in paying, we told him we'd stick his hand in the fishbowl. What do you think happened? The fish bit. We used to feed the thing a dozen live goldfish...
...time Lee's off the fairway," says Archer, "is when he's answering the phone." As for his short game, few if any of the pros surpass his skill at, as he puts it, "dropping the ball on the Governor's lawn." Once there, he putts like a pool shark. "My swing's not much," he says, "but it's good for a short fat man." Then, smiling slyly, he adds, "Say, it's worked for a while, hasn...
Vingo, a Colombo family loan shark with a fearsome reputation for violence...
...filled his baggage with every imaginable sort of junk. Dürer once impetuously swapped a whole portfolio of engravings and woodcuts for "five snail shells, four silver and five copper medals, two dried fishes, a white coral, four reed arrows and a red coral," as well as a large shark's fin that one of his friends, a vicar, had to lug all the way home to Nuremberg. Even the disease that ruined his health, malaria, was a souvenir: a mosquito bit him when he ventured into the salt marshes of Zeeland to draw yet another marvel?a dead whale...