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...Louis (Lepke) Buchalter. Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Lansky, Lucky Luciano, Frank Costello, Al Capone. In 1951 New York City's ex-Mayor William O'Dwyer linked him with the Brooklyn syndicate, Murder Inc. The US. Government indicted him in 1954 for income tax evasion. But Longie was no rap-rack (six months behind bars in his life): he lived in the white space around the letter of the law. Married to a handsome blonde Junior Leaguer, he was civic-minded, gave thousands to help the blind, financed soup kitchens. Recently he held an interest in the vending-machine business...
...people flocked in-folk singers, junkies. We gave them hash. If you were lucky, we threw an egg on it." Afterhours, Belafonte and his pals started to organize a folk-singing group. Says Attaway: "We wouldn't even open the door unless we needed somebody. The guy would rap, and we would open up and say: 'O.K., we need a bass, you can come in.' " The Sage failed (the three partners used to try to raise the payroll for the help by sitting in on a weekly poker game) and Belafonte wangled a four-week engagement...
...Eight weeks later, on Nov. 4, 1928, he was shot in the belly in Room 349 of the Park Central Hotel on Manhattan's Seventh Avenue and died two days later, after crying: "I've got to go home.'' His suspected murderer beat the rap...
Nailed on his 16th driving rap after he pranged a bystander's auto, quirkish Artist Lucian Michael Freud, grandson of Sigmund, was fined $14 by a London court. Said the magistrate, frisking the long record of Freudian slips: "You are temperamentally unfitted to drive a car. I think you'd better see a psychiatrist...
...decreed that Old Bolshies need not die, but just fade away. But the acrid gun smell of the past lurks around the Kremlin, and last week Nikita Khrushchev invoked another ritual of the Stalinist era: the public recantation, admitting to mistakes so that the boss may escape the rap for them...