Word: underworlders
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Died. Virginia Hill, 49, redheaded, free-spending playmate of the underworld, who first gained notoriety in 1947 when Boy Friend Bugsy Siegel, Murder Inc.'s West Coast representative, was executed, gangland-style, in her Beverly Hills living room, and who later acted out a cameo role before the late Senator Estes Kefauver's Senate crime committee, playing dumb about the business dealings of her many racketeer friends but boggling Senators with her full-grown curves and succinct explanation of just why men would lavish money on a hospitable girl from Bessemer, Ala.; apparently by her own hand (barbiturates...
...sack. The sheath. The tunic. The tent dress. Each new look required a closetful of new clothes. But never has the housecleaning been as thorough. Now it appears, the very underworld of women's fashions has been unmasked, the standard lingerie wardrobe has been suddenly rendered obsolete...
...laws to combat crime syndicates, which Johnson called "corporations of corruption." One bill would expand the immunity from prosecution granted to underworld witnesses...
BATMAN (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.).* By day he is Foppish Playboy Bruce Wayne, but at night he dons his puce long johns and his black bat hat and makes war on the diabolical denizens of the dark underworld. Adam West plays Bruce/Batman, and Burt Ward is Dick Grayson (alias Robin the Boy Wonder) in this revival of the 1940s comic strip. Premi...
...refrigerator, television, and-as a chastening reminder of the 32 murders in which the Justice Department estimates he took part-an electric hot plate. The Government feels obliged to protect Valachi because in ratting on the syndicate before the Senate's McClellan Committee, he violated "omertà," the underworld's blood rule of silence...