Kavieff's brisk biography of Louis ""Lepke"" Buchalter, the only major crime boss in U.S. history to be executed, unevenly weaves the labor racketeer's story with that of the bustling early 20th ...
Irving Penn was a short, fat man who was in the sheet music publishing business and had the bad luck to resemble a short, fat man named Philip Orlovsky, who was in the rackets. On Tuesday the 25th of ...
Tony Curtis stars as 1930's gangster Louis "Lepke" Buchalter, head of Murder Inc., the syndicate that splattered the headlines of the day with blood. From his rough-and-tumble East Side childhood and ...