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...public enemy No.1-resident boss of the city's dope smugglers, policy operators, syndicate thieves (specializing in furs and jewelry) and bookmaking ring. He wasn't the kind of man who could do it all on his own: he was, the police were convinced, Racket King Frank Costello's man-in-charge in Detroit. The police tapped Tamer's telephone wires and settled back expectantly...
...Calls Went East. As soon as the player hung up, Tamer was on the phone to New York. The Detroit police noted that many of his long-distance "information" calls went east; presumably he was relaying the dope to Boss Costello, whose office sets the national odds on pro hockey games...
...Profit. Eire's new Prime Minister John A. Costello abandoned Irish Airlines' plan to begin transatlantic service next week between Shannon and New York. Reason: the subsidies for the service were too high for Eire's poverty-stricken government...
...this time the magnet of politics held the anti-Dev chips together. The victors elected unassuming 56-year-old John Aloysius Costello, K.C., Fine Gael frontbencher, as Eire's new Premier. To the comfort of tradition, Mr. Costello (accent on first syllable) was a devout Roman Catholic and family man (five children...
Irishmen here & there gave their opinions. Said Man-of-Letters Oliver St. John Gogarty, in Manhattan: "There's not much humor in the man Costello, but then there was not much humor in De Valera either." James Dillon might make up for that. Dillon, who used to say that Dev's agricultural policy was "no eggs, no poultry, no bacon, and damned little of anything else," became Costello's Minister for Agriculture. Arch-Nationalist Sean MacBride, whose Clann na Poblachta joined the coalition, became Minister for External Affairs...