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...concern for the old and unfortunate went even further-to make sure they got work, one of Clancy's deputies had the job of hiring all dealers, croupiers, chartmakers and other attendants of illegal establishments. Clancy agreed to let Dandy Phil Kastel, partner of Manhattan's Frank Costello, open a gambling spot on the understanding that it would help relieve local unemployment. Unless they hired local people, said Clancy grandly, gamblers couldn't open in Jefferson...
After a long, hard afternoon, the committee read Mickey a long list of gangsters, from Frank Costello to Charlie Fischetti. Mickey said he didn't know most of them, and was dismissed. As he left the room with a sneer on his face, old Senator Tobey remarked: "The committee must go into this matter further at a later date...
...armor. Last week he had the wit to jail hundreds of astoundingly puny hoodlums on the ground that they imperiled the sanctity of the polls. He announced that he had been forced to "take off the gloves." Tammany, he cried, was controlled, lock, stock & barrel, by Big Gambler Frank Costello, and Pecora was nothing but Costello's mouthpiece...
Died. Maurice Costello, 73, oldtime matinee idol, the movies' first high-salaried great lover, father of ex-Actresses Dolores (the third Mrs. John Barrymore) and Helene Costello; in Hollywood. Broke and jobless much of the time since World War I, he wound up as a radio bit-player. "It's better to be a has-been," he once said, "than a never...
...course, but of a restrained sort. Pinero, though he does have most of the cast hiding under tables at one point, at least does not stoop to custard pies. The Victorians needed to relax at a farce now and then, but they would never have cared for Abbott and Costello...