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...carefully telephoned tip to the News at 3:40 a.m. had sent Photographer Bob Costello hustling to the nightclub. When he got there, he found the fight under way. The girls obligingly battled on until he had shot all the pictures he wanted...
...nation's humblest men is New York's Frank Costello, who doesn't want anyone to think that he is as influential as everybody says he is. When California's Commission on Organized Crime recently identified him as the probable head of a nationwide slot-machine syndicate, the Tammany judgemaker wrote to Earl Warreri: "Governor, the truth is that I have so little influence . . . that I can't square a traffic ticket for myself...
That was not the final indignity heaped upon patient Frankie Costello. Last week came word that Costello had been barred from the Turkish bath in Manhattan's Hotel Biltmore, across the street from Tammany headquarters. Some of the customers, said a hotel spokesman, preferred not to perspire in his presence...
Bill O'Dwyer contemptuously snorted "crackpot." Ryan was undismayed. He chirped back: "A question a day might keep Costello away." The next morning, resplendent in pearl-grey Homburg, Ryan was back at City Hall. This time he nailed to the front door of the Hall photostats of some old (and generally discredited) grand jury charges that O'Dwyer had been grossly lax as district attorney of Brooklyn. Ryan happily held every pose the photographers yelled for, withdrew the nail, and went away...
...hands and went to work. Before they were even half through they had made Clen Ryan look bad. In the dead of night Bill O'Dwyer summoned newsmen to City Hall, himself broke the wildest wiretapping story to hit the town since Justice Aurelio was overheard thanking Frankie Costello for his nomination (TIME...