Word: costello
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rule itself. When African political parties march past the European Club in Accra, members raise their voices and go on discussing polo and trade as if the apparition outside were in hopelessly bad taste. Yet Britain's Colonial Office takes the Gold Coast dead seriously. Major James Lillie-Costello, the monocled press officer who handles Nkrumah for the British government, treats the Prime Minister as if he were Winston Churchill, manages to inject half a dozen "Sirs" into every conversation...
Married. John Barrymore Jr., 20, son of the late "Great Profile" and onetime Cinemactress Dolores Costello, now himself a fledgling cinemactor (The Big Night, High Lonesome); and Cara Williams, 25, Hollywood starlet; he for the first time, she for the second; after eloping to Las Vegas...
Francis X. Mancuso, former general sessions judge, crisply admitted to his longtime acquaintance with Costello and Luchese. His suave self-assurance unshaken, Mancuso also admitted that he had decided not to run again for leadership of an East Harlem assembly district after two local hoodlums had "advised" him to resign...
...Daniel Neustein, another former district leader, testified that Tammanyites frequently referred to Costello as "the Boss." Neustein also said that when he expressed his ambition to become a judge, onetime Tammany Boss Clarence Neal told him: "Well, there's no reason why you can't if you pay for it like the other fellow. Your money is as good...
...Wouldn't Say That." For most of the second day of its hearings, the crime commission concentrated its fire on Luchese. From Supervisor George White of the New England Division of the Bureau of Narcotics came testimony that Luchese was believed to have succeeded Costello as "coordinator of the narcotics rackets" and was, in effect, a policymaking chairman of the board of a nationwide dope ring...