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Magruder served on the Federal bench--the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston--for 20 years after his appointment by Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939. He ruled on a number of important issues, including the appeal of the denaturalization of gambler Frank Costello...
...slapstick approach is unfortunate. It seems to me that if one is trying to question the sanity of warfare or society or mankind, one should start with an attempt at authenticity in portraying the soldiers. It is reality, not a warmed-over Abbot and Costello version of it, which is being called to account...
Died. Thomas Gaetano Luchese, 67, alias "Three-Finger Brown" (he lost his right forefinger in an accident), shadowy underworld figure named in 1963 by Gangland Songbird Joe Valachi as a ranking dope racketeer and presumed successor to Frank Costello as the Mafia's New York political fix-it man, a dapper native of Sicily whose only prison time, despite two murder arrests, was a short term on a 1922 stolen-car rap, all the while fiercely maintaining that his luxurious home and six-figure income was the product of honest hard work in his Seventh Avenue garment factories; after...
...television's The Defenders, Actor E. G. Marshall studied law at the New School. Even so astute a politician as Tammany Leader J. Raymond Jones enrolled last year in its popular Center for New York City Affairs, where courses are led by such experts as Deputy Mayor Timothy Costello and Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton...
Williams first made major news in 1953 by winning the first successful libel suit against Columnist Drew Pearson ($50,000 for former Assistant Attorney General Norman Littell). As his reputation grew, he constantly upbraided the Government for stooping to seamy means in order to conquer seamy defendants. He sprang Costello by showing that the U.S. prosecutor had secretly scanned the tax returns of 150 venire-men to get a "goldplated" jury in the gambler's tax trial. In the 1956 perjury trial of ex-OSS Lieutenant Aldo Icardi, who told a congressional subcommittee that he had not murdered...