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...committee goes still further. A public look at a center of trouble may work faster than Congress' debates to bring corrections. Frank Costello, for one, now faces a double threat from contempt and perjury trials. Two other witnesses have been indicted for perjury...
...Abraham Goldman, one of Mayor Impellitteri's deputy chief police inspectors, retired suddenly, after being identified as a crony of one of Racketeer Frank Costello's shady and powerful pals...
...Louis' Millionaire Bookie James J. Carroll, a dignified and severely dressed man who had refused to talk before (on the ground that he, like Frank Costello, wanted no part of television), also provided a few refreshing moments. He seemed nervous at first and complained about the lights. Said he: "You have injected the fright factor...
...getting a thorough going over. Among the 126 names: Joe Adonis; Ralph ("Bottles") Capone, brother of "Scarface Al"; Anthony ("Little Augie" Pisano) Carfano; Louis ("Little New York") Campagna; Paul ("The Waiter") Ricca; Charles ("Cherry Nose") Gioe; Frank Diamond; Rocco Fischetti; Vito Genovese; Irving ("Waxey Gordon") Wexler and Frank Costello...
...generally conceded that the TV industry had done a good, workmanlike job. But some critics worried about hippodrome tendencies, e.g., when WPIX Commentator Harry Brundidge, at the end of Frank Costello's testimony, rushed to the witness stand and begged the leather-faced Costello to smile for the TV audience, the TV cameras left the Senate committee high & dry until Costello graciously obliged. That the committee itself felt some uneasiness was indicated this week when Wisconsin's Senator Alexander Wiley suggested that the Senate Rules Committee make a thorough study of the question of televising congressional proceedings...