Word: costelloism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Costello: Congratulations. It went over perfect. When I tell you something is in the bag, you can rest assured...
After that Frank Costello was poison in the big city. This year when he gave a $100-a-plate charity dinner for the Salvation Army at the Copacabana, eight judges, including Aurelio, a Congressman and all the top Tammany politicos turned up in dutiful droves. But the newspaper headlines that bloomed largely and blackly the next day had the same, exultant horror that might have been expected if he had spent the night plotting to cart off the City Hall...
...Like a Rabbit." Frank Costello took the lesson to heart. Every man has his own secret portrait of himself, and Costello fancies himself a man who keeps his word, sticks by his friends ("I know a lot of people who are not exactly legitimate. But that don't mean I'm in bed with 'em, does it?") and does countless good deeds. After all, wasn't he supporting a boys' town in Italy, didn't he quietly give away thousands to charity every year, including some run by papers which damned him, and didn...