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The William E. Dickens-Sidney Power Gang was active in the New England states in the late 1930s. The gang leaders were killed in shootouts with law enforcement by the end of 1937. However several associates weren't apprehended by law enforcement until early 1938 and later. The gang pulled robberies,...

The years 1926 and 1927 marked the beginning of an anti-obscenity campaign in Philadelphia. According to news accounts many publishers and distributors of illicit literature had relocated to Philly from other major cities. Despite the support of Catholic leaders and others New York City didn't approve...

Frank Cammarata was a mobster heavily involved in the music and jukebox business in the 1950s. His base was Detroit and Ohio. Deported from the United States in 1939 he reentered the country as a stowaway on a ship bound for New York City. Cammarata was hired specifically to break up a dispute between...

A gambling syndicate that operated above a prominent Terre Haute, Indiana restaurant in the late 1950s was a multi-million dollar operation. The business was nationwide and featured mobsters from Chicago, Minneapolis, Indianapolis and Las Vegas. My e-book looks at the reach of the betting ring and...

William Sailor Freedman was a lightweight boxer who came to Philadelphia from Brooklyn as a runaway youth. He worked as a newsboy before he became an employee of gambler Max Hoff. In later years he resumed his connections with organized crime associates like Hoff. Hoff was a rum runner during the...

My e-book looks at Playboy Playmates and models from 1973-1988. I've included random happenings. Included within is a remembrance of a 1973 Playmate who dined at the White House. She was a guest of President Richard Nixon and First Lady Pat Nixon and the companion of a former Vietnam POW. A late 1980s...

Bruno Giacomelli was a promising Formula 2 World Champion who came into F1 in the late 1970s. Driving for Ford-McLaren and later Alfa Romeo observers were impressed by how fast the Italian driver from Brescia was on the track. Giacomelli was joined at Alfa first by Andrea de Cesaris and later Mario...

Richie Ginther like his fellow Californian, Phil Hill, was a Formula 1 driver of significance in the 1960s. Both were from Granada Hills, California. Hill won the 1961 World Championship of Formula 1 Driving in 1961 while Ginther's one and only F1 victory came at the Mexican Grand Prix, driving...

Noel Francis caught the eye of Broadway producer Florenz Ziegfeld after she came to New York City from her native Texas. Noel soon appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies of 1925. Then with help from Ziegfeld she started acting in motion pictures. She signed with Fox Films. In the early 1930s she became...

Mario de Araujo Cabral became Portugal's first Formula One driver when he qualified for the Grand Prix of Portugal in 1959. His name was soon blackened by an incident when he pulled onto the track at Monsanto in front of F1 great Jack Brabham. The incident has been linked with Cabral ever since. A...

Wally Butts and Bear Bryant were two legendary coaching figures in the Southeastern Conference. An Atlanta insurance man claimed to have been connected to a telephone conversation between the two coaches while he was trying to call a friend on business in Atlanta. The Saturday Evening Post published...

Albert Anastasia met with Louis Capone, Pittsburgh Phil Strauss and others before calling out a hit on Joseph "Tough Joe" Amberg on September 30, 1935. One of four brothers Amberg was perhaps the most dominant Jewish Mafia figure in Brooklyn at the time. He was slain in execution style in a garage...

John Delutro was a Gambino family soldier who was indicted by federal agents for heroin and cocaine trafficking in December 2000. Delutro was one of six mobsters from four different New York crime families to be indicted. Delutro, the son of Gambino soldier Anthony "Tony West" Delutro, is...

In June 1935 the New Jersey State Police recovered a virtual arsenal of weapons from a Mountain View gangster hideout. Among the stash were tear gas bombs, a sub machine gun used to kill Mad Dog Coll in February 1932, stolen cars, pistols, great quantities of ammunition, other weapons, etc. Of the...