Arty,
Once again, you have strayed way off topic. Now you want to debate which gang was meanest, or had the best hit men. Purple gang, Sammy G, Al Capone, The N.Y. bosses or Al Sherman, Hubert Cokes and Titanic. The latter two did not aspire to associate themselves with gangs, but they sure weren't afraid of them, and dealt with them in their own way !
Do you really think you are making a statement of any kind ?
I was trying to make a point with Jay, (and he probably knows better than me) about how really smart and respected, Ti and Coke's were, in their day.
They spent a good part of their lives dealing with dangerous phsyco's, at times, but mostly with suckers (and a lot of very smart businessmen) They may have looked at the Rack, weighed the risk,reward, and passed on it. You or I will never know.
I thought we were talking about pool player's, card cheat's, sucker's and con men. Somehow we're are off on killer's and mob connections.
It's obvious we lived in two different world's Arty, also there appears to be no room for humor in your world, its ALL about the money, isn't it. I'm going to leave you with your lifetime of rememberences.
I'll just keep mine, thank you.
Nice talking with you,
Dick
P.S By the way Arty, you missed the whole point about the movie "the Hustler"...It wasn't about pool.... it just had pool in it !