Word: gambler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan, Gambler Frank Costello, who was convicted of contempt of the Senate's Crime Investigating Committee (and promptly appealed), was sentenced by Federal Judge Sylvester J. Ryan to 18 months and $5,000. Said Costello, in polite if gravel-voiced tones: "Thank...
...fight up the Columbia River, an ambuscade on the slopes of Mt. Hood. Having eliminated most of the badmen on the Pacific Coast, Stewart and Kennedy start taking potshots at each other, and stage their final death grapple in a mountain torrent. At intervals in the gunfire, Stewart and Gambler Rock Hudson make sheep's eyes at Julia Adams and Lori Nelson. Funnyman Stepin' Fetchit, after a movie absence of 15 years, is back in Bend of the River as a molasses-slow deckhand on a river boat...
...longer dons a cowboy suit for the annual fat stock show (Amon Carter, president), and seldom wears his checked gambler's suit with electrically illuminated necktie for soirees at Shady Oak Farm. Nevertheless, when he goes abroad, he wears his western hat and cream-colored polo coat, and people say, if they don't know him by sight, "There goes a sport," or, if they are Texans, "a nach...
...basketball fan, who found last year that he was being bilked by gangsters and crooked college boys, is a wide-eyed diehard. The fans may suspect any one of their current heroes of being on a gambler's payroll, but they are pouring back into the big-city arenas and college gyms in unprecedented numbers. Attendance figures, according to a United Press survey, are up by more than...
...days last week, Gambler Frank Costello, 60, sat glumly in a Manhattan courtroom and faced the prospect of a prison term. Charged with contempt of Congress for walking out on the Kefauver crime committee last March, he based his defense on the contentions that i) television hearings are unconstitutional (rejected by Federal Judge Sylvester J. Ryan), and 2) his doctors had warned him of danger to his chronic sore throat (an arrested cancer) if he testified. The doctors were put on the stand. Both said they had told Costello he could testify...