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...party line, authored no major bills. But in 1951 he catapulted to fame and, thanks to national television, built himself a real political image. As chairman of a special Senate crime investigating committee, he dragged such diverse and unsavory characters as Greasy Thumb Guzik, Virginia Hill and Frank Costello into the bright lights for a classic lesson in morality. Gentle but relentless, Kefauver questioned them with painful sincerity, became to millions a pillar of log-cabin courage and small-town mores because of the contrast between his stolid ruggedness and the squirming, shifty-eyed hoodlums he confronted. From those hearings...
...Kennedy's two appointees were split. Each time Justice Byron "Whizzer" White has voted with the minority of judicial "conservatives," while Justice Arthur Goldberg has voted with the "liberal" majority. » Agreed to give a hearing next fall or winter to an appeal by New York Racketeer Frank Costello, 72, against deportation proceedings. Costello, convicted of income tax evasion in 1948 and 1949, has been fighting deportation to his native Italy for two years...
...EMILY COSTELLO ('65) The College of St. Catherine St. Paul...
...Palm Beach. The Washington Daily News hooted that "the Administration now will hide its grapes of McGrath in the ever normal McGranery," but McGranery went at it with a will, bounced Justice bureaucrats, freely fired crooked U.S. marshals, and started proceedings to deport such Mafia mobsters as Frank Costello...
Looking greyer and more gravelly than ever, Frank Costello, 71, learned that the U.S. has every intention of giving him the boot-right back to his native Cosenza on Italy's instep. The gangland chieftain was stripped of his citizenship in 1959 after a U.S. district judge ruled that the onetime rumrunner and kewpie-doll salesman had been naturalized fraudulently in 1925. Now the U.S. Court of Appeals in Manhattan has turned down his attempt to upset a deportation order. Rasped Costello: "Italy is O.K. to visit but not to live in too long...