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...politic. But in New York last week, it was intent on deeper surgery. Though its hearings were closed, and could only be followed by buttonholing the doctors at the operating-room door, the committee's interests were plain. It wanted to know all about 1) Underworld Kingpin Frank Costello, and 2) former Mayor and present U.S. Ambassador to Mexico William O'Dwyer...
...Costello was called in to testify twice, for a total of 7½ hours. He appeared dressed in the quiet good taste of a Wall Street broker, seemed in fine spirits (his briefcase, he told reporters, contained nothing but "two bottles of whisky and a pair of pajamas"), and acted as though he had just dropped in to see some old pals. The Senators were equally polite. Committee Counsel Rudolph Halley let it be known that Costello was "a good witness," said he had given information on a dozen politicos of both parties, which was "full of meat...
What Was Going On? The committee's references to the former mayor (who invited one of its investigators to take testimony from him in Mexico City last week) were also on a diplomatic and neutral plane. Beyond revealing O'Dwyer's statement that he had met Costello only once, and then in obedience to an order when he was a World War II officer investigating war frauds, the committee publicly made no attempt to link...
...York next month, interview O'Dwyer in person, and hold open hearings with a group of witnesses which might even include Virginia Hill, great & good friend of the late "Bugsy" Siegel. New Yorkers could hardly wait to find out whether the city had been suffering from deep-seated Costello-itus or just surface symptoms of itchy fingers...
...Willie Moretti decided to go into the laundry business. For a mere $3,000 he bought the U.S. Linen Supply Co., Inc in Paterson, N.J. Willie had one handicap; he was an ex-convict. But he had assets to offset it: he had known Al Capone socially, and Frank Costello himself had been best man at Willie's wedding...