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...Manhattan's most mysterious citizens, aging (66), ailing Frank Costello, commonly termed a gambler and tax-dodger because no more nefarious raps have been officially pinned upon him, has long been ripe for rubbing out. Now free on $25,000 bail while appealing a tax-evasion conviction (five years), Costello, a charmed-life anachronism from the Prohibition Era, could see signs that he had outlived his right to be known as "prime minister of the U.S. underworld." The obvious way for upstart mobsters to hasten the crumbling of Kingpin Costello's dark empire of crime and rackets would...
...quashed indictments, amiable Hines magistrates freed the small fry. Into Hines's personal treasury came -in addition to the customary kickbacks from city employees and officials-vast wads of money from Schultz. How Hines profited from his warm association with other leading hoods, e.g., Lucky Luciano, young Frank Costello, Rackets Banker Arnold Rothstein, only the principals knew-and they never talked...
Frog-voiced Gambler Frank Costello...
thinner but looking fairly hale for his 65 years, showed up for a happy session in a Manhattan court. Sprung from a federal pen, Costello left the court a temporarily free man on $25,000 bail. The U.S. Supreme Court had paved his way by ruling that he may circulate while his appeal on a conviction for evading $28,532 in federal income taxes is being considered...
...Both Costello and De Valera are too good patriots to make a campaign issue of the flaming question of partition, emphasized in recent months by a sharp increase in border raids by the outlawed Irish Republican Army. Though campaign speeches by all contestants dutifully included at least one soaring reference to the injustice of dividing Northern and Southern Ireland, both the speakers and their listeners knew that none of the old men who lead Irish politics today, nor even men much younger than they, were likely to live to see partition's end. The Sinn Fein (We Ourselves) Party...