Word: underworld
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...part of Colorado (for circulation purposes, at least), the Denver Post sent its crime editor, Gene Lowall, into Dallas last January. On assignment as roving "house dick" for the Post (TIME, Oct. 31), husky, balding Newsman Lowall spent four busy days talking crime with members of Dallas' upper & underworld...
...dollar armored ear robbery, and will probably prove unsatisfying to readers of Boston newspapers. But good acting and directing, and a half-hearted attempt to face the problem of what happens to a man when he is released from jail, improve it somewhat over the run-of-the-mail underworld picture...
...crime, it contained no bombshells likely to blow Frank Costello out of his Manhattan apartment. But the new syndicate's bosses were betting that cooperative reporting would make national headlines before long. One promising sign: gangdom was so worried that pool reporters had already been "approached" by the underworld...
...city: "Even the church members were using my Sunday texts as guides for selecting numbers to be played during the week." Determined to stop it, he conducted his own investigation, then announced a series of sermons which would reveal "the so-called respectable citizens who were backing this underworld industry." His office was promptly dynamited, says Reverdy Ransom, but he went right ahead with his campaign: "I delivered my sermons with a loaded revolver always within easy reach...
...have a mind like blotting paper," British Lexicographer Eric Partridge once said. In the past dozen years, he has blotted up enough odd facts about words ("It becomes a dreadful habit") to fill a Dictionary of Slang, a Dictionary of Cliches and a Dictionary of the Underworld. Last week the latest product of his addiction was on U.S. bookshelves. Name into Word (Macmillan; $4.50) was a colorful catalogue of "proper names that have become common property...