Word: soho
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...famous as the leader of the Gelignite Gang, which specialized in blowing safes. "Eddie gets nervous at the thought of anything locked up," said friends proudly. He drove a low-slung car, had a West End flat stocked with a succession of girls, and was well known in Soho's nightclubs. Caught on a routine job one night in Edinburgh, Eddie was released on bail, promptly went to London and scooped up enough cash to bail out his two friends. With Eddie's girl, they lit out for the Isle of Jersey. There the police caught up with...
...seven-story structure* at the intersection of New Bond and Bruton Streets, in London's West End, has its formal opening this week. The informal opening took place in mid-December, when editorial, advertising and publishing employees started moving from their old quarters on Dean Street in the Soho district of London...
...dives off Tottenham Court Road and in Soho, in back alleys of the East End, in the slums of Glasgow and Liverpool-all the places where British criminals gather-there was no misunderstanding. They knew well what Derek Bentley's execution meant...
...went to Britain for a year to be assistant to the pastor of St. Patrick's, Soho, a poor, drab parish, half-Italian, half-London Irish, with a sprinkling of Chinese. He is still a loved and legendary figure at St. Patrick's. Whenever he goes to London, he preaches there, and the parishioners eagerly look forward to his visits. Said one last week, hoping for another visit this month, "Things seem very confused. Then you have a talk with Bishop Sheen. Then things clear up. Then they grow confused again...
...Boston. Says warmly homely Elsa: "Boston was puzzled by anyone who even looks like me." Variety's Boston correspondent reported that her routine was "weighted down with too much sameness of material." There was no reason for it to be. Since her teen-age days in a Soho supper club (where she sang a song that begins, "Chase me, Charley, over the barley, I've lost the leg of my drawers"), she had picked up plenty of material. Among other things, Elsa, onetime student of Isadora Duncan, confesses that "I am a bit of a dancer and make...