CUBA: Hoodlum on the Wing

U.S. horse-track touts, drug peddlers and plain tourists who winter in Cuba were reading the Broadway columns with closer interest. Every now & then they found a nice little item about "Lucky" Luciano, and in Havana it was pretty common knowledge that Lucky was wintering in Cuba, too.

Mobster Luciano, pimp and drug peddler, was beginning to look like a nice guy —if anybody believed the columns. Since he had been sprung from prison and deported to Italy, some of the columnists had discovered a heart of gold beating under his silk shirt....

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