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Poverty? None of the victims were robbed. Neglect? All of the boys came from good homes; they belonged to the old, respected element. Ignorance? All had good school records. Organized crime? None belonged to hoodlum gangs which are the farm clubs of the New York underworld. Three of the four had been summer camp counselors; they liked athletics, played handball, swam at neighborhood pools, liked books and music...
Like Victor Hugo's dogged Javert, Jean Baylot, Prefect of Paris Police, was a policeman with one idea. The shootings, burglaries, thievery and other routine crimes he left to his staff to handle; the shadowy underworld which lies behind the beauty of Paris hardly knew his name. Baylot concentrated 16,000 policemen and his own single-minded will on hunting and harassing Communists. He was uncommonly effective: when Parisian Communists said the name of Jean Baylot, they spat...
Time has mellowed Cèline's grisly humor without muting his jungle screams or lessening his power to describe gutter-snipery with the force of an apachefied Charles Dickens. Gnignol's Band depicts the life of French crooks in the underworld of London during the First World War. The book's hero, Ferdinand, is a victim of a German strafing attack, which leaves him feeling as if ''nailed to the shutter like an owl." He has a deafening singing noise in one ear. a gnawing migraine, a mere stump of a left arm. Honorably...
Welch: Mr. Anastos, I may be wrong in this, but, using an underworld phrase, you kind of give me the impression that you feel that this picture has become hot. Is that right...
...heat of the Senate caucus room, a battery of microphones and three television cameras caught the drone and tension of the Army-McCarthy hearings. The performers could scarcely match the line-up of the 1951 Senate crime hearings, which starred such unforgettable characters as Bible-quoting Senator Charles Tobey, Underworld Moll Virginia Hill and Frank ("The Hands") Costello, but the cast was fascinating in its own way. There were McCarthy, alternately menacing and benign, doodling or rolling his eyes at the ceiling; slick-haired Roy Cohn, licking his lips and buzzing in the boss's ear; Secretary Stevens, eager...