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...turned its evidence over to the New York City Anti-Crime Committee, which handed it out to other papers to use in digging up their own stories. The New York Journal-American discovered that Acting Lieutenant Governor Arthur Wicks, along with other prominent officials, had also visited Labor Racketeer Fay in Sing Sing (TIME, Oct. 12). As a result, Dewey asked Wicks to resign. Wicks offered to "let the Senate pass upon my fitness." In its zeal, the J-A was also slightly embarrassed. Among the stockholders of the Yonkers track was the paper's own sports columnist, Lewis...
...members of the district attorney's staff, and Publisher James E. Stiles, owner of the defunct Nassau Daily Review-Star, Newsday's opposition. Newsday also broke the news that Labor Boss De Koning posed as a "nephew" and visited Sing Sing prison for conferences with Joe Fay, racketeering labor boss of New York-New Jersey building trades, who is serving a term for extortion...
...former state supreme court justice, onetime G.O.P. candidate for the governorship and currently the counsel for the racketeer-ridden Yonkers Raceway.* Republican State Senator William Condon of Yonkers had a ready explanation for his visit: he had escorted A.F.L. President George Meany on a trip to see Extortionist Fay, hadn't spoken a word during the visit. Although his name did not appear on the prison record, Meany acknowledged two trips to Sing Sing to see his old buddy...
Noble Causes. The bleats of innocence could be heard from Trenton to Albany. Nearly everyone, it seemed, had visited Joey on behalf of someone else or in the interest of some noble cause. The explanations tended to confirm reports that Fay was still firmly in command of the construction unions, that he was handing out jobs to "graduating" comrades at Sing Sing and to relatives of cooperative prison officials, and that he was masterminding the raceway shakedowns...
Pride of the Family (Fri. 9 p.m., ABC-TV) offers Old Vaudevillian Paul Hartman as a bumbling average man whose well-meaning efforts to do right by his wife (onetime Cinemactress Fay Wray) and two children create no end of confusion and misunderstandings. Hartman's memorable hangdog face and ability to make the most of his harassed-father role raises the show above the common level of television's glut of family comedies. Sponsors: Armour & Co. and Bristol-Myers...