Word: underworldly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Arthur, 31, a pilot for Transocean Airlines, who has been flying a C-54 between California and Japan on the Korean air-freight run. The pilot, said Braumoeller, had been bringing in from Japan each trip as much as four pounds of uncut heroin, worth $32,000 in the underworld. After MacArthur was charged, his lawyer told Agent Braumoeller: "I don't know what he needs a lawyer for. What are we going to deny when you come to court with pictures of the whole business...
Died. Anthony R. ("Tony") Gizzo, 52 Kansas City underworld bigshot; of a heart attack; in Dallas, where he had gone to visit son Robert Gizzo, jailed on a narcotics robbery charge. A sidekick of Political Mobster Charles Binaggio, who got his in a 1950 gang killing, Gizzo was named by the Senate crime investigators as the Capone mob's Kansas City gambling liaison...
...Alice Prin, but she was known in Montparnasse as Kiki. She came from the province of Burgundy, where she had been, as she said, "one of six little love children." She arrived in Paris at the age of twelve, on the eve of World War I, and the Paris underworld drew her in. At 13: "My mother has some artificial geraniums on the mantelpiece; I swipe a petal every day to rouge my cheeks and mouth." She worked in a war factory oiling soldiers' boots, in a munitions plant, in a bakery. An old sculptor asked her to pose...
...shifty little Comintern agent who recently lost his job as East German propaganda chief, and was presumed on the way out. He explained his long absence from the political arena without a smile: "I had to have my teeth repaired." Then he turned to the refugees. They were all "underworld characters, trash proletarians, black marketeers and scum . . ." but anyway, Eisler was going to save them from the horrors of Western imperialism...
During this period, Alfred began a long poem which would take twenty problems that people face in the world and voice them through twenty characters who travel the underworld. Then, representing the church, militant and triumphant, the theme would change to twenty saints who had solved the problems. Scaling down this ambitious project, Alfred published the work as Anunciation Rosary...