Word: underworlds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nothing to do with State Athletic Commissioner Julius Helfand's investigation into the affairs of Jim Norris' International Boxing Club, which has a strangle hold on big-time professional boxing. Yes, Gimbel was aware that SPORTS ILLUSTRATED had exposed the connections between Multi-millionaire Norris and underworld characters such as Frankie Carbo. Yes, he had heard Norris testify to his friendship with Carbo. Still Barney Gimbel insisted, "I do not know the man [Carbo] nor do I know who he knows or what he does. What I do know is that I had contemplated this move...
...retired to his 800 closely guarded acres near Fowler, Ind. to live the life of a gentleman farmer. Many of his old pals, including Anthony ("Tough Tony") Accardo and Murray ("The Camel") Humphreys, turned up at his wake in suburban Berwyn, Ill., to which the elite of the Chicago underworld were invited...
...Address. Commissioner Helfand could hardly have been surprised. A onetime racket-busting assistant district attorney in Brooklyn, he has been around long enough to know that buying a piece of a fighter is one sure way to buy underworld class-it gives a guy the taint of respectability. So when Helfand tried to find out why a slick young welterweight named Vince Martinez was getting the brushoff from matchmakers, it was not exactly news that witnesses began to mumble about a Murder Inc. alumnus named Frankie Carbo...
...compatriot Francis Bacon (TIME, Oct. 19, 1953) as a shock dispenser. His latest collection of watercolors, on view last week at Boston's Swetzoff Gallery, bowled over even the blasé Brahmins of Beacon Hill and led the Boston Herald to call him "a poet of the underworld...
...sympathetic insights into the personal problems of a reasonably steady, square-shooting, white-collar criminal (Lee Marvin). The night before the big job the poor fellow cannot sleep. Of course he is afraid, but he is also anxious to impress the boss (Stephen McNally) and get ahead in the underworld. He paces the floor in his hotel room until all hours, sniffing wretchedly at his "Benny" inhaler. This reminds him of a former wife, a party named Parmalee. Few marriages can have suffered so implacable a description as he gives that one, in seven well-chosen words. "Caught better...