Word: costelloism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Raft, the Ritz Brothers and sundry other notables. He bought a $75,000 stucco "bungalow" in Brentwood, shared a tailor with Lou Costello, dabbled in prizefighters and bought a piece of a supermarket chain. He was anxious to cooperate with...
...summary: Roden (Y) defeated Weissman (H), 4 and 3. Costello (Y) defeated Burke (H), 3 and 2. Rosenholtz (H) defeated Egan (Y), 4 and 3. Clarke (Y) defeated Sears (H), 8 and 6. Timpson (H) defeated Brokan (Y), 1 up. Marshall (Y) defeated Eggan (H), 6 and 5. Knight (Y) defeated Reich...
...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...