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Everybody knows somebody who knows something about Frank Costello. At least, that is the way TIME Reporter James A. Bell felt during his long investigation of the gambler and underworld figure who is the subject of this week's cover story. Bell's-and TIME'S-job was to try to separate the facts from the Costello legend and get behind the hitherto published material on Costello...
...Bell had his first look at some of Costello's operations (slot machines and Louisiana's Beverly Country Club) while working on TIME'S cover story on New Orleans' Mayor "Chep" Morrison in November, 1947. Some months ago, when he began working on the Costello cover in earnest, Bell first went to the law enforcement agencies in Washington and New York. Then, armed with what the law knew about Costello, he set out on his own in the gambler's backyard: New York City. At first it was very frustrating. Costello sources did not want...
Died. Michael Joseph Kennedy, 52, veteran Tammany wheelhorse; in an airplane crash; in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). A onetime Democratic Representative from New York (1938-42), Kennedy became Tammany sachem in 1942, was ousted two years later after bigtime Gambler Frank Costello admitted that he had used money and influence to swing Kennedy's appointment...
...most active proteges and is backed by Labor's David Dubinsky. Holding the mantle of the Little Flower like a bullfighter's cape, he leaped into the arena, flapped it at the mayor-and then set hurriedly off after that well-scuffed political kigmy, Gambler Frank Costello. He implied heatedly that Costello ruled Tammany and that Tammany ruled O'Dwyer. He did not document the allegation, but for all that, it had a fine, wild ring to it, and it made lovely headlines...
...last week the Press Club received a polite refusal. "While I deeply appreciate the great honor conferred on me . . ." Costello wrote, "I cannot accept ... I never made a speech in my life and the very thought of it almost scares me to death. Even the idea of facing members of the press gives me the shivers, although not nearly so much now as before November last, when you loused up the election situation and the betting odds...