Word: soho
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vickie was clearly the prosecution's strongest witness until beautiful, blonde Sylvia Parker flew dramatically back from Italy to declare that Vickie's testimony was "a load of rubbish." The ex-mistress of a murdered Soho mobster, Sylvia testified that she had been living in Ward's apartment during the time when Vickie Barrett claimed to have been using it for assignations, and had never seen the prostitute there...
More likely they will traipse off to the Neptune, a tiny Soho seafood house operated without frills by Sam Abrahams, who formerly peddled jellied eels from an East End pushcart. The first time a bunch of budget Baedekers swarmed into his place, Sam "couldn't understand where all the Americans came from." Today, however, Sam is well aware that nearly all of his Stateside customers brandish a $1.95 paperback tome titled Europe...
Christine eventually took a job in a London dress house. At a small Soho cafe called The Zodiac, she met a Spanish waiter named Carlo, began spending weekends with him at his seedy Soho boardinghouse. Then a girl friend introduced her to a U.S. Air Force sergeant. "Night after night we whooped it up with the Yanks," recalls the friend. "They were twelve very gay months." But Christine got pregnant, gave birth prematurely to a son she called Peter. The infant died six days later. Christine was just...
Super-Duper. So off to Soho Cassius trooped, to confront Cooper at a press luncheon, arranged by Promoter Jack Solomons. "Henry Cooper is a tramp, a cripple and a bum," Cassius declared. "I'll hit him so many times he'll think he was surrounded." Cooper manfully fought back...
...Halles. Britain's Street Offenses Act, passed in 1959, has ended the processions of undulating whores that used to fill up Piccadilly Circus, Bayswater Road and Hyde Park. Borrowing a trick from their sisters in Amsterdam, many London prostitutes now sit at the upper windows of scruffy Soho flats for which they pay as much as $150 per week...