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Republican leaders had hoped to keep Defense Secretary Charles Erwin Wilson under wraps until some of the furor about his budget died down. But friends of the Air Force stirred up such a row that the Senate Appropriations Committee called Wilson well ahead of schedule last week to give him his big chance to sell his product...
Spectacular Complaint. Stamler carried out his orders with tactless vigor. He slammed 100 gamblers, including Big Shots Frank Erickson and Joe Adonis, into jail, and got indictments against a score of others, including three highly placed cops and a former Bergen County prosecutor. Amidst this furor, Bergen Gangster Willie Moretti was mysteriously killed (at the orders, according to Stamler's hints, of politicians who were afraid he would talk). But Willie, according to testimony, did not die before making one spectacular complaint: he had given $286,000 to a smalltime statehouse aide named Harold John Adonis...
...Page One furor about Senator Joe McCarthy's "blockade by subpoena," there was a rapid changing of tunes last week. Originally, the Wisconsin Senator boldly announced that he had succeeded where the State Department had failed: his investigating subcommittee had "negotiated" an agreement with Greek shipowners to prevent 242 merchant vessels from carrying cargoes to Communist ports. In answer, Mutual Security Director Harold Stassen boldly told McCarthy that he was "undermining" the State Department. Then the rewriting began...
...this." But Mrs. Hecht's little girl had just been forced out of the cast of the play Midsummer by Actors' Equity, and Broadway rang with the loudest theatrical Donnybrook in many a season. Actress Jenny Hecht seemed small (9 years, 45 Ibs.) to create such a furor. But then, as her father, Playwright (Front Page) Ben Hecht, had himself once remarked: (There never was an uninhibited little wench like Jenny...
After three months of furor, the Arena has finally been sold, the group of New York businessmen who have held an option on the property since mid-December. The businessmen will probably convert the St. Botolph Street sports center into a factory...