Henrym Simpson News Today

In the numbers game of the 1950s, one man was on top: ‘Whitetop’ Simkins John Kelly In his book “I Came As a Shadow,” Big John Thompson mentions a numbers runner named Simpson. Was Simpson called “Whitetop”? Somehow, that comes to me. — Jesse Washington, is an evocative look at an earlier D.C. The famed Georgetown coach wrote about moving with his family from Anacostia to a brick house on W Street NW at age 10. “That’s where I learned that bricks hide po...

Thousands across D.C. played the illegal lottery. Simkins bribed the cops to keep it going.