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...solved 17 murders, Yard men investigating the Great Buckinghamshire Train Robbery succeeded in rounding up nine suspects, recovered $761,367 of the $7,000,000 loot. Also on hand were Ernest Millen, boss of the Flying Squad, alias the Heavy Mob, whose 100-odd sleuths know more about the underworld than Dante; and the Terrible Twins, top Detectives Tom Butler and Peter Vibart, who have cracked many a big case together. Yet, so far at least, the gang's ringleaders were still at large. Even without such humiliations at the hands of master crooks, the lot of Britain...
...years Valachi kept faith with "omerta" the underworld's blood rule of silence. Then, in 1960, he was imprisoned on a narcotics violation. Suspecting that he was turning informer, the underworld marked him for death. Crazy with fear, Valachi turned to the FBI for protection and began to sing for his life. Last week the word was out that the underworld has put a $100,000 price on Valachi's head. But Valachi, now 60, has already told his story - a bizarre account of a blood stained crime syndicate, fondly dubbed Cosa Nostra (Our Thing...
...effort to get low-rent tenants out of his houses and high-rent tenants in, Rachman hired men to urinate in hallways, smash furniture, and once in Bayswater to remove the roof of a house and abandon the stubborn tenants to the mercy of wind and weather. In the underworld he got the name of "Polish Peter," and West Indians, who knew his power, called him "White Chief Rachman...
Rachman's own fate is as mysterious as his missing money. The London underworld buzzes with rumors that there was a body switch at Edgware, and Rachman has reportedly been seen everywhere from Manhattan to Paris. The question was raised in Parliament, but last week Scotland Yard and investigating newsmen were satisfied that the real Rachman was dead and that his corpse lies buried in an unmarked grave in a Hertfordshire cemetery...
...students on a Starvation Budget, with no mention of the fact that its hostel regulations impose a rigid 11 p.m. curfew. Conversely, Vienna's list includes at least a couple of hotels that generally rent rooms to streetwalkers and their clients, and a drinking spot that is an underworld rendezvous frequently surveyed by police. Nevertheless, says the manager of London's truly familyish Arundale Hotel, "This book has been the biggest aid to Britain since the Marshall Plan...