Word: gangsters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chinese infiltration. "If God had meant there to be yellow men," the chief explains, "he would have made them like you and me." Hendra and Ullett, both 25, arrived at their joint lunacy three years ago when they went to work in a London nightclub owned by a Lebanese gangster. Moving on to the U.S. in 1964, they were booked into Dallas, where transoceanic satire is as welcome as revisions in the oil-depletion allowance. "It was murder," Hendra recalls. "They canceled us in a week." The boys have since played everything from the Catskills' Borscht Belt...
Died. Joseph F. McGinnis, 61, Boston gangster and mastermind of the 1950 Brinks robbery-biggest haul ($2,775,395, of which only $56,586 has been recovered) in U.S. history-who had an alibi on the night of the crime, but was betrayed by a member of his ten-man gang, convicted, and given nine concurrent life sentences; of arteriosclerosis; at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution, at Walpole...
...fighter plane flying a yellow banner emblazoned with a black "L" dropped a small nylon bag in the plaza of Villalba, Sicily. The bag was addressed to "Uncle Calo"-Calogero Vizzini, the millionaire chief of Italy's Mafia. In the bag was a gold foulard handkerchief belonging "to Gangster Lucky Luciano-a sign that Lucky wanted his old pals to play paisan to the Yanks. Four days later, when three U.S. tanks rolled into town, Vizzini climbed into one of them, clattered off to direct a joint Mafia-Allied operation, which pincered German and Italian troops in western Sicily...
Over the years he became a polished comic who never had to resort to blue material to get a laugh. In fact, he was responsible for the biggest clean joke in theater history. As a speakeasy waiter in the 1927 musical Manhattan Mary, he hovered over a gangster who asked him what there was to eat. "Jelly roll," suggested the comedian, "or perhaps the gentleman would like some nice ladyfingers." "Ladyfingers!" roared the gunsel. "My God, I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!" Whereupon Wynn ran offstage and returned leading a full-grown sway-backed horse...
...came the clanging overture: China's third atomic explosion in 18 months. Next came the dramatic appearance of the star: Chairman Mao Tse-tung turned up in public view for the first time since last November. Finally, there was the tragic-heroic ending: Peking claimed that five American "gangster" jets had shot down a Chinese "training" aircraft well inside the Chinese border, and vowed that "the debt in blood must be cleared." All very melodramatic, but, as with the best of Chinese opera, it was all just a bit hard to believe...