Louis "Lepke" Buchalter - one-time head of Murder, Inc. - was a dangerous, but fascinating, character in American history. Here's an interesting biographical article by Allan Levine in the Tablet.
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Louis "Lepke" Buchalter - one-time head of Murder, Inc. - was a dangerous, but fascinating, character in American history. Here's an interesting biographical article by Allan Levine in the Tablet.
Lepke favored a fedora, eh?
ReplyDeleteWhy does that sound familiar ... ... ?????
We were assigned Robert Lowell's poetry for study in junior high school, would you believe. And the only bit I remember are the words 'flabby, bald, lobotomized' describing 'Tsar Lepke'. First time I'd heard about lobotomy, only time I heard of Lepke before this.
ReplyDeletehttps://poets.org/poem/memories-west-street-and-lepke
So I see that Lowell was a WW2 conchie, and imprisoned with Lepke. I guess the poem was assigned because it's pretty easy to follow, now looking at it.
JeffS: I don't know nuthin'!
ReplyDeleteBruce: We were never assigned Robert Lowell's poetry at any time, so this is new to me. Fascinating. I had no idea that Lepke had made it into somebody's poem.