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...with a crash like a brickbat sailing through a precinct station window. Britain's refusal to grant Irish unity was an understandably serious problem to the Irish-but should it be allowed to split the two principal allies in the cold war? Ireland's Prime Minister John Costello applauded Fogarty heartily and said a few statesmanlike words about "free peoples of the world" and England's "great wrong." Somebody fired off a bomb in Belfast (a small one which only injured one policeman). But a great many earnest U.S. citizens shredded their morning news papers into confetti...
...Manhattan, Actor-Radio Commentator Robert Montgomery petitioned the court to revoke the U.S. citizenship of Gambler Frank Costello, charging he had obtained it fraudulently. "A cheap hammy stunt for publicity," Costello retorted. "The claims of my vast wealth and income are pure fiction. I am a man . . . with a modest income, and I live conservatively but comfortably...
...members of the 14-paper syndicate got their first pooled story, written by Ted Link of the Post-Dispatch (TIME, Nov. 1, 1948) and reporters from the Chicago Daily News and the Miami Herald. A kind of ABC of national crime, it contained no bombshells likely to blow Frank Costello out of his Manhattan apartment. But the new syndicate's bosses were betting that cooperative reporting would make national headlines before long. One promising sign: gangdom was so worried that pool reporters had already been "approached" by the underworld...
...outraged at seeing Gambler Frank Costello's picture on the Nov. 28 cover . . . The only place for his picture is in the police files...
TIME does it again. Frank Costello: not worthy-but "newsworthy...