Word: underworlders
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...journalism. As in The Kingdom and the Power, his best-selling chronicle of traditions and feuds at the New York Times, Talese drops more at the reader's feet than anyone knows what to do with. Honor Thy Father is a jumble of you-are-there re-reportage, underworld history, fictionalized interior monologues, and a long courtroom scene. But it is never dull...
...hanging (1965), the Great Train Robbery of 1963, and the reform of the prison system in the mid-1960s. Last week crime was again the subject of a hotly contested national debate as Britons sought to cope with a new and alarming trend toward violence in Britain's underworld...
...escaping thieves opened fire. Blackpool's respected chief of police, Superintendent Gerald Irving Richardson, was killed, and two of his constables were wounded. To an aroused public, 100,000 of whom turned out for the slain superintendent's funeral, the Blackpool shooting underscored the fact that the underworld in Britain is no longer reluctant to resort to armed violence. Not even the Great Train robbers had used guns, and in the old days crooks often informed on their gun-toting colleagues. Now, said Sergeant Leslie Male, vice chairman of the Police Federation, "the war against crime...
Smith has made the Mafia his beat since the early 1950s, when he covered Chicago's underworld as a pavement-pounding police reporter, first for the Chicago Tribune and then the Chicago Sun-Times. During that period he cultivated unrivaled sources on both sides of the law. Smith also became known for the unorthodox tactics he used in his dogged pursuit of the Mob, which included crashing gangland soirees. When Smith showed up uninvited at a $20,000 wedding reception for the daughter of Sam ("Mooney") Giancana, the reputed Mafia chieftain pleaded for privacy. "Look at that kid," said...
...talent was one of his creations known as the "Lost Property Office." Wild would approach a citizen from whom money or documents had been stolen (generally in a theft organized by Wild), and represent himself as a man whose crime-fighting had given him some knowledge of the underworld. Perhaps he could be of help. In a day or two-sometimes only a few hours-he would return with the suggestion that the citizen appear at a street-corner rendezvous, prepared to pay a reward. No, Wild wanted nothing; to be of service was satisfaction enough. From the thieves...