Word: underworlders
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...body politic. But in New York last week, it was intent on deeper surgery. Though its hearings were closed, and could only be followed by buttonholing the doctors at the operating-room door, the committee's interests were plain. It wanted to know all about 1) Underworld Kingpin Frank Costello, and 2) former Mayor and present U.S. Ambassador to Mexico William O'Dwyer...
...Even the underworld, or at least its old guard, gets sympathetic treatment from The Blue Lamp. The plot is pegged on the London police's tradition of doing their duty without firearms. The film suggests that socially adjusted lawbreakers respect this tradition, but one amateurish criminal upstart (Dirk Bogarde) loses his head and plugs the picture's most likable bobby (Jack Warner). The courage of the unarmed police closing in on the gun-toting killer invites both admiration and suspense. What should most impress U.S. fans, however, is the reaction of London gangland's staunch conservatives: well...
...Fort Leavenworth. Drug addicts, he feels, are not so much criminals as neurotics who belong in hospitals. He writes of his cons with affection, and it is plain that he won theirs. When his assignment ended, they tried to offer him a choice of profitable jobs through their underworld connections. In his garage, a few days before he left, he found a brand-new car in place of his wobbly old one. When he refused it with regrets, Punch said: "Boss, I hate to say this to you, but I'm afraid you'll always be a sucker...
...record some facts that the Tribune had long wanted to print but dared not, because of the danger of a libel suit. One witness testified that Sheriff Hugh Culbreath of Hillsborough County (which includes Tampa) had received campaign contributions from one of the city's most notorious underworld hoodlums. In its coverage of the hearings (30 columns the first day), the Tribune pulled no punches, despite the fact that Sheriff Culbreath's son had been married to the daughter of Tribune Publisher J. C. Council only a few days before...
...anticrime campaign is redheaded Managing Editor V. M. (for Virgil Miller) Newton, 46, a Tribune staffer for 21 years. "Red" Newton started his crusade in 1947, when almost all of Tampa's municipal offices were taken over by a slate of candidates supported by Tampa's underworld. Newton sent out a squad of his staffers to find out how the election had been swung. Led by Reporter Jock Murray, a well-groomed, Nova Scotia-born Scot who looks more like a Wall Street banker than a crusading newsman, the Tribune's men put together a series...