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GAMBLER FRANK COSTELLO has nothing worse than chronic laryngitis now, his doctor testified last week, but in 1933 it was cancer of the vocal cords. Manhattan Specialist Douglas Quick said that 28 X-ray treatments in a three-month period licked the cancer, but left Costello with considerable scar tissue. The scar tissue was just one of the reasons for Costello's laryngitis, the doctor believed. The other: too many cigarettes...
...Abbott & Costello...
TIME'S covers aroused as much interest as anything else, with most criticism coming from those who thought (erroneously) that the editors necessarily confer an honor when they select a cover subject. They objected to such covers as Stalin, Costello and Eugene Dennis. Cover subjects are not picked by popularity contests, they were told, but by careful evaluation of their influence on the news, good...
...weeks before election day, a detective sidled up and said: "The general would like you to leave town, and he would like you to leave immediately." Sherman said the detective told him of an impending "terrible blast" (about O'Dwyer's 1942 meeting with Gambler Frank Costello, which Sherman attended) in the newspapers...
...incentives [for better executives in government] become less rather than greater when investigating committees from Washington, dominated by men like Senator Tobey . .. . imply that men like Costello and Erickson, whom most of us never saw until the Kefauver committee televised them, run the city's business...