Word: costello
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well acquainted with the modern racket boss, a suave fellow who invests his money in the most respectable enterprises, patronizes a fashionable psychiatrist, and takes pains to meet all the best people. The first well-publicized specimen of this new breed of gangsters was New York's Frank Costello. Last week, with Costello safely tucked away in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary on a contempt rap, New York's four-man State Crime Commission opened public hearings in Manhattan, and soon flushed the man billed as Costello's heir, another sample of the new breed named Thomas Luchese (rhymes...
Behind Luchese, however, lay an eventful career. His acquaintances included Costello, ex-Vice Lord Charles ("Lucky") Luciano (see INTERNATIONAL), and a host of real, gun-toting hoods, among them "Trigger Mike" Coppola, Joe Stracci alias Joe Stretch, and Costello's man Friday, "Big Jim" O'Connell. Luchese was convicted of possession of a stolen automobile in 1922, but he managed to beat two arrests for murder, one for vagrancy and one for receiving stolen goods. It was while being fingerprinted during one of these brushes with the law that he got his alias. As a young man, Luchese...
Alfred L. Toplitz, onetime chief clerk of the New York City Board of Elections, admitted that he knew Luchese and was also acquainted with Costello, Coppola and "Little Augie" Pisano, but "never socialized with them." Asked how a $7,500 salary could stretch to cover his expensive tastes (one pair of blue suede oxfords cost him $100), Toplitz dabbed nervously at his palms with a paper handkerchief and replied that he occasionally won some money on the horses...
...sports Warren Duff's dialogue would be a credit to Mankiewiez. William Dietetle's direction shows near genius in the court room scenes, with Fd Regley, as the syndicate mastermind, radiating an injured innocence that makes Frank Costello look like a boy scout...
...activities (TIME, Oct. 27). ¶Director William Gorman, the board representative of Oilman Ray Ryan, another member of the Stolkin-Koolish syndicate which bought control of RKO a month ago. Ryan's name had cropped up in the Kefauver hearings when it developed that he and Racketeer Frank Costello had an interest in the same oil lease. ¶Sidney Korshak, a Chicago lawyer who had helped out in the syndicate's negotiations with Howard Hughes and was hired at $15,000 a year as a labor-relations consultant for RKO. At one point in his career, according...