Word: underworldly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...till noon reading and writing as a huge wood fire blazes away. Much as she likes elegance, she is addicted to occasional forays into London's East End, where she often chats with prostitutes and barrow boys. On these excursions, her friends say, she creates for herself an underworld dream life. She also follows murder cases avidly, recently dragged brother Osbert to the scene of the grisly Christie murders and kept him there for hours. The critics now pay her court, but she is still bitter about them. Once she sent a stuffed owl to a critic she thought...
Webb dated her twice a week for two months, recalls: "I detested every minute of it." But he got her story-for nothing. Last fall he scored another clear triumph by persuading Gangster Billy Hill, undisputed boss of London's vast underworld, to let him ghost Hill's life story ("I am the gangster who runs the underworld"). Shortly after, Gangster Hill vanished from the sight of London police, who want to talk to him about a $100,000 gold robbery...
Webb looks back with professional wistfulness on the crime wave after the war when London had 20,000 military deserters living at the end of their guns. Although London's underworld has quieted down considerably since then, Webb has still uncovered more than enough material to satisfy The People and to fill three books (The Verdict Is Mine, Crime Is My Business and Deadline for Crime...
...fear of his underworld sources drying up. Explains Crime Reporter Webb: "I don't tell police what the villains tell me, and I don't tell the villains what the police tell...
...earliest Hemingway-the versatile, outdoors-loving son of respected Dr. and Mrs. Clarence E. Hemingway. Later Oak Park's people wondered, as one of them put it, "how a boy brought up in Christian and Puritan nurture should know and write so well of the devil and the underworld." (He was born a Congregationalist, became a practicing Roman Catholic, now apparently does not go to church). The city room of the Kansas City Star saw him fresh out of high school and itchy for excitement. He left after only seven months of covering "the short-stop run" -police, railroad...