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...child, Richard ("Angel") Williams found life in Philadelphia a bleak affair. Angel's father deserted his family when the boy was a baby. His mother developed tuberculosis. The boy was shipped from one institution to another, and after stealing a car, ended up in the reformatory. When Angel was turned loose last year, at 17, he energetically set out to make a name for himself...
Before he left the "walls," Angel had settled on a guiding principle: the cops can't beat a well-organized gang. He rounded up a tough reform-school graduate named Frank Matyasevic to act as his "enforcer," and then began recruiting young hoodlums for the Green Street Counts-"the most menacing gang of teen-agers," according to Detective Captain James Kelly, "ever to get together in this city...
...Together." Angel saw to it that the Counts led privileged lives. They wore soft black felt hats with white bands, special T-shirts with "The Counts" lettered on them; dressed up, they wore small golden crowns on their lapels. The loot from a series of petty holdups and strong-arm robberies kept them well supplied with money; the Counts rented a $4O-a-month apartment, stocked it with whisky and used it as a place to bring chosen bobby-soxers. When a neighboring gang, the Brewerytowners, tried to muscle in on them, the Counts took them on in street fights...
...have quiet," said Angel. "Take everything," said the bartender. The boys did-$50.85 from the cash register. But as they backed out, a man at the bar tossed a glass of beer in Angel's face. Angel killed him with five well-placed shots. Last week Angel was in jail, charged with murder...
Gift Shop Proprietor Joy Hawley, who had experience with direct-mail advertising, wrote personal letters to hundreds of residents of Orlando and nearby Winter Park. She and her gift-shop partner, Helen Ryan, decided to call anyone who gave $5,000 or more an angel. A benefactor gives $1,000, a patron $500, and so on to associate members, who give $5. Last year the letters brought in $37,000 toward this season's budget...