Word: adonises
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Spectacular Complaint. Stamler carried out his orders with tactless vigor. He slammed 100 gamblers, including Big Shots Frank Erickson and Joe Adonis, into jail, and got indictments against a score of others, including three highly placed cops and a former Bergen County prosecutor. Amidst this furor, Bergen Gangster Willie Moretti...
Harold Adonis skipped the country, but Stamler indicted him anyhow. Shortly thereafter, Special Prosecutor Stamler was fired by Attorney General Parsons for "insubordination." This caused even more uproar than Stamler's cleanup. The legislature launched an investigation into the affair, after Stamler shouted from the rooftops that he had...
Dickerson also admitted that the Republican state committee had accepted a $25,000 "loan" from one Joseph Bozzo, a friend of Gambler Longie Zwillman, and had kept no records of the cash repayment. What about Willie Moretti's complaint about his $286,000 bribe? Dickerson knew all about it...
Albert Jordan, his former chauffeur, testified that he frequently drove Kenny to the home of a Jersey gangster and gambler named Charlie Yanowski, who was later stabbed to death with an ice pick. Kenny, it developed, also had a deep interest in the waterfront and held a secret midnight meeting...
Buddies & Torpedoes. Conservatives among U.S. sculptors, some of whom boycotted the show because they considered the jury too modern, still got their share of space. But, for the most part, they wasted it. Cecil Howard's sleek, plaster Adonis, Sacrifice, and Paul Manship's pair of bare-chested...