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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Costello, he set out on his own in the gambler's backyard: New York City. At first it was very frustrating. Costello sources did not want to talk about him. They failed to keep appointments with Bell, and when he called them back a voice at the other end of the telephone usually said "never heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Nov. 28, 1949 | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

...Mayor Fiorello La Guardia ordered the machines seized, personally banged up dozens of them with a sledge hammer while photographers recorded his prowess. He also called fellow Italian and longtime admirer Frank Costello a bum, a tinhorn gambler, and a punk. That was the end of Tru-Mint and of Costello's regard for the Little Flower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: I Never Sold Any Bibles | 11/28/1949 | See Source »

Funds are supplied to cover all the expenses for the year of study at a foreign university, which must be in a country where there are Rotary Clubs. Anyone accepted for a fellowship must agree to return to his own country at the end of his year of study and will then be expected to address Rotary groups in his community...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rotary Gives Aid To Foreign Study | 11/26/1949 | See Source »

...Crocker award was established last spring by a group of former Harvard football players in honor of the popular 155-pound end of the 1932 team who was killed while serving on a destroyer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Isenberg Chosen Football Captain; Davis Gets 'Most Valuable' Award | 11/23/1949 | See Source »

...product--and this in the same room where you can eat a wiener schnitzel and drink an African Zombie. At 8:30 and 11:30 p.m. the nitery's green-vested waiters clear the dessert dishes and fill the water glasses; the lights dim, and the stage at one end of the room becomes the center of interest for the next hour, as a group of young singers and dancers take over...

Author: By Stephen O. Saxe, | Title: FROM THE PIT | 11/23/1949 | See Source »

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