Word: underworlds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...William Campbell as a gabby delinquent, John Hodiak as a district attorney torn between ambition and pity, and Jay C. Flippen as a Scandinavian sailor out to make a quick buck. Tracy generates considerable sympathy as the unstable lawyer, makes understandable the willingness of both the police and the underworld to help him out of a tough spot...
Shirts off. Sherman is a big, tanned, affable promoter who has also maintained palship with several big U.S. hoodlums and has been accused of acting as a link between underworld big shots, politicians and businessmen. (Although never convicted, J. Edgar Hoover once called him "one of the most prominent [U.S.] criminals.") Last week, however, Sherman remained unabashed by these hard names. He described himself as a simple businessman, and spoke of O'Dwyer as an ingrate...
Died. Tu Yueh-sen, 64, onetime fruit vendor who became the underworld boss of Shanghai, controlled the city's waterfront trade unions, ricksha boys and the Red Gate and Blue Societies (protection racket); after long illness; in Hong Kong. In 1927, when Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek split with the Communists, Tu broke up the powerful Communist-bossed General Labor Union, managed to keep Shanghai from falling to the Reds. In return, Chiang appointed him head of the Anti-Opium League, a position which gave him legal control of the country's thriving drug trade, in which he already...
Senator Charles W. Tobey, 71, Bible-quoting gadfly of the underworld, got doctor's orders to stay home in Temple, N.H. and take it easy. Said Mrs. Tobey: "He's been overdoing it for two years. He's been doing the work of a dozen...
Well-dressed, polite, successful, he moved a few years ago into a $100,000 house in Fort Lee, N.J. and settled down to highly polished respectability. But the Kefauver hearings turned an embarrassing spotlight on Joe; with four underworld partners, he was indicted for running a million-dollar gambling empire in New Jersey. Too shrewd to risk a jury trial, he threw himself on the mercy of the court...