Word: costello
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Every six months, A.P. newspapers get a mimeographed list of additions and deletions; the notice circulated Jan. 1 of this year added Composer Benjamin Britten, Leonid Brezhnev, U.S. Senator Teddy Kennedy and Author John O'Hara, among others, plus a few revisions (Lyndon Johnson, Richard Cardinal Gushing, Frank Costello...
Snyder seeks the seat of retiring Councillor John Costello, Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor...
...making love to his wife three and four times a night was jailed for vagrancy because, as a social worker explained, "the magistrate couldn't think of anything else, and he couldn't leave him there with that poor girl." In Manhattan two weeks ago, Gambler Frank Costello was arrested for vagrancy while dining in a theater-district restaurant, Dinty Moore's. Costello's lawyer challenged the charge, and a judge quickly dismissed it after the arresting officer admitted that he had not heard anyone offer 73-year-old Costello a job and Costello refuse...
...Trend. The ease with which Costello beat the rap shows the weakness of vagrancy laws. Yet precisely because the prosecution usually backs off so fast on such charges when the accused is prepared to fight, vagrancy laws are seldom tested in court, where they would almost certainly be ruled unconstitutional...
...lunch with his friends any more-not if the place is a Broadway chophouse, the friends are eminent Manhattan bookies, and the guy happens to be onetime Rackets King Frank Costello, 73. Poor Uncle Frank. (That's what the doorman at his Central Park co-op calls him.) The feds cut in at the gefilte fish, hauled the bookies down to the courthouse for failure to buy their $50 gambling stamps, brought Costello along on a vagrancy charge, being, as the law says, "without visible means of support." Fortunately, his attorney explained that he was "retired," and even...