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...long history, the U.S. Supreme Court has received countless accolades. But last week the Court got an unexpected and effusive endorsement from a man who is usually noted for his tight lip. Rasped gravel-voiced Frank Costello: "It's a square bench...
...vote of 6 to 2, the Court had blocked the Government's long campaign to send Gambler Costello, 73, back to his native Italy. It was six years ago that Costello was stripped of his citizenship on the grounds that he had obtained naturalization through fraud, that he had listed his occupation as real estate when it really was gambling and bootlegging. After that, the Justice Department moved to deport Costello on the theory that two previous convictions for income tax evasion made him vulnerable to a statute that permits the ouster of an alien found guilty...
Wife No. 1 (Mariclare Costello) is a variation on Mom. She is steely, self-contained; he is cold, remote, self-centered. The pair deny themselves to each other. He is parched for the reassurance that he is capable of love, when Maggie-Marilyn sits beside him on a park bench. She appeals to his Pygmalion complex, the power to shape another human being. He pities her vulnerability, admires her gift for living in the present without justifying her actions or impulses. To her he is a wondrous king-of books. Each weds his own deepest inadequacy, his for love, hers...
Already a power in 1957, Vito Genovese coveted the influence of New York Gambling Czar Frank Costello (now fighting deportation). But Costello would not budge. Infuriated, Genovese gave his chauffeur a contract on Costello. The chauffeur took a clumsy shot at Costello in the lobby of his Manhattan apartment, succeeded only in creasing his skull...
That angered the infamous Albert Anastasia, a Costello crony and one time high executioner for Murder, Inc. Anastasia was further enraged when another old mobster buddy, Frank Scalise, was hit on Genovese's order a month later for selling memberships in Cosa Nostra for $50,000 apiece. To Anastasia's mind, that broke Lucky Luciano's old law that the Cosa Nostra higher-ups should never be physically punished but only fined by the grand council. Word went out that Anastasia would retaliate against Genovese...