Word: underworldly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pimps, naturally, hate him. One tough character, who has since been murdered in an underworld row, threatened to kill him. Recalls Père Pigalle with a laugh: "His women disappeared. He got it into his head that it was I who was taking them away. Imagine it-with my bald head and more than 70 years!" On another occasion two would-be assassins rang the priest's doorbell, pistols in hand. "I implored them: 'Not at this hour-you'll wake everybody up. Put your playthings away and come in if you like.' Finally, they...
...teen-age street-fighting gangs. They call themselves Centurians, Demons, Villains, Stonekillers and Sand Street Angels, organize themselves with the precision of military combat teams, with an officer hierarchy (president, war counselor, armorer, etc.). Their code of ethics is a distorted boy's-eye view of the underworld, laced with real touches of bravado and evil that are gleaned from television and the movies-and from relatives who have firsthand experience. They prowl the dark streets, kill and maim one another, dabble in narcotics, drink themselves into a rage with cheap wine called "sneaky pete...
Shame on Reader Pat Brennan [Feb. 17] for comparing the accomplishments of Spellman, Sheen and Gushing with those of Dio, Anastasia and Luciano. However, may I point out to Pat that in both fields he mentioned-the Catholic Church and the underworld-Italians...
Libby will bring to Capitol Hill a longtime friendship with the racketeers who lurk in the background of the West Side's ward politics. A pal of the late underworld overlord Al Capone, Libonati is still on chummy terms with former Capone henchmen such as Tony Accardo and Paul ("the Waiter") Ricca, who are really "charitable" and "patriotic" fellows, according to Libby. During his two decades in the state legislature, Libby opposed legislation urged by the Chicago Crime Commission, backed bills that gamblers also liked. One piece of legislation paid off nicely: after Libby helped put through a bill...
...Only the New York cops seemed genuinely stirred. Al had hardly been lugged out of the hotel before they were questioning the first of hundreds of underworld characters. The two killers had dropped their pistols on the way out; one was a .32 Smith & Wesson, the other a .38 Colt which originally had been sold in the Middle West in the 1930s. That was all anybody knew. The police were intensely curious as to why Al's bodyguard, one Anthony Coppola, was in a drugstore across the street when Al was ventilated. Anthony was just doing what his kind...