Word: underworlders
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...underworld boss who values his reputation for homicide in the Chicago of 1928, Douglas is a softie who puts his victims out of circulation by imprisoning them comfortably in his cellar. He falls for genteel Governess Jean Peters ("a dame with class"), persuades her to take charge of a pint-sized guttersnipe whom he forces to pose as his son. Jean turns out to be an aspiring singer who can wiggle her assets on a nightclub floor-and switch right back to being as prim as Little Red Riding Hood. Douglas' problem: to go straight for her sake without...
...Encounter, by Crawford Power. Crime & punishment in a rag-tag underworld teaches proud Father Cawder that "it's no part of a priest's business to pass on people like a judge"; an unsentimental first novel on a Graham Greene-ish theme (TIME, June...
...favelas of Rio de Janeiro are akin to Algiers' notorious Casbah. Teeming shanty towns, about 200 in number, they spot the city's steep hills, shelter its slippery underworld. The Pépé le Moko of the favelas is a little man (5 ft. 2 in., 105 Ibs.) who says his real name is João da Costa Rezende but who is better known as Carne Séca, or Dried Meat...
...Encounter, by Crawford Power. Crime & punishment in a rag-tag underworld teaches proud Father Cawder that "it's no part of a priest's business to pass on people like a judge"; an unsentimental first novel on a Graham Greene-ish theme (TIME, June...
...Riviera nightclub, while another thug stood by. When Mortimer came to, with two black eyes and a swollen jaw, he asked: "Who hit me?" But later, he told the Mirror that it must have been a gangland beating in retaliation for Mortimer's occasional stories on underworld affairs. The Hearstpapers' lurid stories described his assailants as "paid mobsters," who had done the job with brass knuckles and a pistol. (Playwright Sidney (Detective Story) Kingsley, a wartime MP who was also in the washroom, said the beating was done with fists, couldn't recollect...