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Shirts off. Sherman is a big, tanned, affable promoter who has also maintained palship with several big U.S. hoodlums and has been accused of acting as a link between underworld big shots, politicians and businessmen. (Although never convicted, J. Edgar Hoover once called him "one of the most prominent [U.S.] criminals.") Last week, however, Sherman remained unabashed by these hard names. He described himself as a simple businessman, and spoke of O'Dwyer as an ingrate...
Senator Charles W. Tobey, 71, Bible-quoting gadfly of the underworld, got doctor's orders to stay home in Temple, N.H. and take it easy. Said Mrs. Tobey: "He's been overdoing it for two years. He's been doing the work of a dozen...
Well-dressed, polite, successful, he moved a few years ago into a $100,000 house in Fort Lee, N.J. and settled down to highly polished respectability. But the Kefauver hearings turned an embarrassing spotlight on Joe; with four underworld partners, he was indicted for running a million-dollar gambling empire in New Jersey. Too shrewd to risk a jury trial, he threw himself on the mercy of the court...
Little Men, Big World moves fast, beats with excitement. Veteran Crime Novelist W. R. Burnett (Little Caesar; High Sierra) knows the underworld jungle and has a keen ear for its talk. In his study of Arky's misplaced loyalty, he even tries to find some human motive behind the squalor of his story. In the search, he overdoes the idea that most of Arky's hoodlum ways can be explained by a poverty-stricken boyhood. Otherwise, the book is almost as unsentimental as Frank Costello on television...
...Dwyer, the committee charged, had contributed directly and indirectly "to the growth of organized crime, racketeering and gangsterism in New York City." It accused him of playing footie with Underworld Big Shot Frank Costello (who also came in for a sharp dressing down) and with failing to do his full duty as Brooklyn's district attorney before becoming mayor...