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...MARIAN ERICKSON...
Basketball Coach Adolph Rupp was Streit's particular villain. The judge directly linked Rupp with Bookie Ed Curd, characterized as "the Frank Erickson of Kentucky." The judge charged that Rupp 1) wined and dined Curd at Manhattan's Copacabana nightclub;* 2) with the knowledge of the players, was often in contact with Curd to get the gambler's "line" on Kentucky games; 3) once bawled out a player for missing a shot that "just cost my friend, Burgess Carey, $500." In addition, Streit charged that a player was crippled for a month when coaching authorities allowed...
...incentives [for better executives in government] become less rather than greater when investigating committees from Washington, dominated by men like Senator Tobey . .. . imply that men like Costello and Erickson, whom most of us never saw until the Kefauver committee televised them, run the city's business...
Taste Tells. In a San Mateo, Calif, saloon, Steelworker Gus Erickson, who had cigarettes in one pocket and firecrackers in another, absentmindedly reached for a smoke, got the wrong pocket...
Resigned Shrug. Equally memorable in TV's gallery was grey-haired, impeccable Joe Adonis, who needed only a highball to pose as a gentleman of distinction; pudgy Bookmaker Frank Erickson, who never got beyond the fourth grade ("I refuse to answer on the grounds that it might intend to criminate me"); Water Commissioner James J. Moran, a granite-jawed Irishman clearly following some elaborate, personal code of honor that the common run of mankind would never comprehend; and the virulent clash of words and wills between New York's ex-Mayor William O'Dwyer and Senator Charles...