They Don't Make Crooks Like That Anymore; Ireland Lost; & No O2 for You!
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Enemies of the People: Helen McEntee In his Editor’s Column this week, Michael Walsh wrote about the subject of one of his best books, the great Owney Maddon. A Model Immigrant And a very happy 132nd birthday (yesterday, Dec. 18) to the greatest Irish gangster of them all, Owen Vincent Madden! Leader of the Gopher Gang, inmate at Sing Sing, NYC's leading beer brewer during Prohibition, Mae West's lover (hardly an exclusive category), Broadway producer, founder of the Cotton Club, the man who hired Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Lena Horne, and Harold Arlen and made them all stars, owner of five heavyweight champs, including Primo Carnera and James J. Braddock, stone killer, the man who led Mad Dog Coll to his death in the call box at the London Chemists on 23rd St., very likely the guy behind the hit on Dutch Schultz in the Palace Chop House in Newark, boss of Hot Springs, Ark., and mentor to young William Jefferson Blythe/Clinton in his final years. Truly a great American, even if he was a criminal.
They Don't Make Crooks Like That Anymore; Ireland Lost; & No O2 for You!
They Don't Make Crooks Like That Anymore…
They Don't Make Crooks Like That Anymore; Ireland Lost; & No O2 for You!
Enemies of the People: Helen McEntee In his Editor’s Column this week, Michael Walsh wrote about the subject of one of his best books, the great Owney Maddon. A Model Immigrant And a very happy 132nd birthday (yesterday, Dec. 18) to the greatest Irish gangster of them all, Owen Vincent Madden! Leader of the Gopher Gang, inmate at Sing Sing, NYC's leading beer brewer during Prohibition, Mae West's lover (hardly an exclusive category), Broadway producer, founder of the Cotton Club, the man who hired Duke Ellington, Cab Calloway, Lena Horne, and Harold Arlen and made them all stars, owner of five heavyweight champs, including Primo Carnera and James J. Braddock, stone killer, the man who led Mad Dog Coll to his death in the call box at the London Chemists on 23rd St., very likely the guy behind the hit on Dutch Schultz in the Palace Chop House in Newark, boss of Hot Springs, Ark., and mentor to young William Jefferson Blythe/Clinton in his final years. Truly a great American, even if he was a criminal.