Word: costello
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yale-trained Shakespeare scholar from the University of California, San Diego, to head the endowment. Berman had complained in his 1968 book America in the Sixties: An Intellectual History of the "disastrous vulgarization of intellectual life"; he once described Bertrand Russell and Herbert Marcuse as "the Abbott and Costello of political philosophy." Dissatisfied with McArthur's projects, he set out to change the endowment's direction...
Indeed, his concerts were less appreciated by critics than by hoods. Mobster Frank Costello was one of his biggest fans. In New York's Lewisohn Stadium, Levant annually played Gershwin to a bench of discriminating cauliflower ears...
...last year, Australian Rod Laver collected $292,000. In women's golf, last year's top moneymaker was Kathy Whitworth, with $43,500; in men's golf, 58 men made more than that, and Jack Nicklaus topped everybody with $244,490. In bowling, Patty Costello led the women last year with $5,275; John Petraglia led the men, with more than...
...house but its tenants of yesteryear. Duncan initially dismisses the weird noises and the hostility of the townfolk, every man jack of them with a scar on his neck. And Jessica begins to wonder if it isn't all in her mind. That overheated young hippie Emily (Mariclare Costello) who was living in the house, for instance. Surely she can't be a hundred years old. And yet the picture of a deceased tenant of 1880 does look like her. Eventually Jessica fights back, regaining her sanity at a dreadful price. But she takes so long to achieve...
Genovese feared that Costello alive posed a grave threat to him, so he looked around to see what his enemy might do for allies. The most likely was Albert Anastasia, affectionately known as "The Mad Hatter." Genovese approached Carlo Gambino, then only an ambitious Anastasia lieutenant, and convinced him that they would both be better off with Anastasia dead. Gambino quickly got the point. On Oct. 25, 1957, just as Anastasia had settled back comfortably in a barber chair in Manhattan's Park-Sheraton Hotel, his bodyguard conveniently excused himself. Two men walked in quickly, drew pistols and turned...