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After pleading that he was too sick to testify because of his heart condition, Manhattan's frog-voiced Gambler Frank Costello, 65, looked in perfect health when the Government's deportation case against the Italian-born racketeer was thrown out of court (because so much of the evidence was gathered through wire taps). "By the law of averages, I was bound to win this one," said Costello. Then he was led back to prison, where he recently began serving a five-year sentence for cheating the Government on taxes...
...Federal Court in Manhattan's Foley Square had not been so lively since Estes Kefauver interviewed Frank Costello. A House Judiciary subcommittee, holding hearings on monopolistic practices in the broadcasting industry last week, wound up testimony from leading tunesmiths, lyric writers and librettists. Upstaging Committee Chairman Emanuel Celler were Librettists Alan Jay (My Fair Lady) Lerner, Oscar (South Pacific) Hammerstein II, Dorothy (I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby) Fields and Otto (Roberta) Harbach; Composer Stanley (What a Difference a Day Made) Adams, Occasional Songwriter Billy (Barney Google) Rose. Their statements were all designed to show...
...Carmine De Sapio: "Tell Carmine he can get out of this with something. He can make this one−if he'll go now." Carmine agreed (he has never forgotten that Estes and the Kefauver committee in 1950 made him out an old pal of Racketeer Frank Costello). The Texas delegation caucused. Albert Gore's Texas backers fought wildly, but the delegation was faced down by grim old Sam Rayburn. "Gentlemen," said Rayburn, "you can vote as you please-but Sam Rayburn is voting for Kennedy." Under the unit rule, Texas stood 56 for Kennedy...
Keeping a date with the law, Manhattan Gambler Frank Costello, 65, turned himself over to a U.S. marshal to start serving a five-year stretch for evading $28,532 in federal income taxes, was sent off to a detention jail to await his denaturalization trial next month...
...with which the U.S. faces the world can do this country little good. It is perhaps more dangerous than naivete, because it characterizes America as stubborn, dogmatic, and incredulous. A portrait painted in such colors clashes harshly with the glib flatteries and broad grins of Moscow's Abbott and Costello, and also with just such Russian ploys as the armaments reduction. America becomes the conservative and unimaginative, Russia appears the innovator, the offerer, the fair-haired caretaker of the peace dove...