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Already facing a five-year stretch for evading payment of $28,532 in federal income taxes, Manhattan's Italian-born Gambler Frank Costello, floating loose on $50,000 bail, gingerly peeked at a suspicious Christmas greeting from New York State revenooers. If he expected the worst, he got it: a claim on Costello for a jarring $190,982.24 in unpaid state income taxes. Further robbing Costello of holiday cheer, the federals recently vetoed his plea to let him get out of town, thus cancelled his annual pilgrimage to Hot Springs, Ark., where he might have shaken off his perennial...
...Sullivan Show (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS). Abbott & Costello, Teresa Brewer. Joyce Grenfell, Mimi Benzell...
...Carmine has to get out of being in the next room to Costello! Well, for at least five years, and maybe ten, Costello and his ilk were running Tammany...
Last week the British government made strong representation to the Republic's Prime Minister John Costello to crush the I.R.A. before its gunmen trigger real trouble in Northern Ireland. But it was doubtful whether Costello, who presides over a coalition government, is strong enough to do what De Valera had done. In Costello's Cabinet there are men who agree with ex-Foreign Minister Sean MacBride (son of the late famed Patriot Maud Gonne, and himself an old I.R.A. man) who said: "While the I.R.A. voices the national sentiment of the people, no Irish government would place itself...
...want to get sentimental or dramatize this thing," says De Sapio, "but I want to tell you-I swear to God that if the day ever comes when those guys or their kind [Costello & Co.] have any hold over me whatever, I'm going to get out so quickly it'll make your head swim. The thing you have to remember is that an awful lot of people are depending on me-on my political integrity-for their political futures, their jobs-everything. I couldn't possibly afford to get mixed up with mobsters or hoods...