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Died. Frank Erickson, 72, "King of the Bookies," who for some 30 years operated a $12 million-a-year gambling business behind the front of a Manhattan florist; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. To New York's Fiorello La Guardia he was a "tinhorn punk"; but to thousands of horseplayers Erickson was the giant of U.S. gambling, handling some $33,000 a day in bets until he was convicted of illegal gambling in 1950 and tax evasion...
Whatever the destination, the flight alone is often memorable. Consider the Sky Roamers, bound from La Guardia in their DC-7 for the Super Bowl. Their trip started off like many a commercial flight-that is, an hour behind schedule. But once aloft, the pace quickened. Glad-handers jammed the aisle. Miniskirted stewardesses squirmed through, bearing trays of drinks (none of that two-to-a-customer routine here) and sandwiches. Shoes were shucked...
...heliport and stolport will be used to improve connections between Manhattan and its small outlying satellite fields in Teterboro, N.J., Farmingdale, L.I., and Westchester County. The objective is to encourage private planes to use the satellite fields instead of the presently more convenient but overworked commercial jetports-Kennedy, La Guardia and Newark-to which small planes contribute 40% of the combined traffic during rush hours, and at La Guardia alone...
Died. John Franklin Carter, 70, author and onetime Washington columnist; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. His 30-odd books of politics, economics and biography (La Guardia, Drew Pearson) were always bright, often incisive studies of the times and its men. His syndicated column, "We, The People," written from 1936 to 1948 under the pen name Jay Franklin, crisply and authoritatively chronicled the Roosevelt and Truman Administrations -and Carter scored one notable coup when, almost alone, he predicted HST's 1948 election victory...
...early days of trade unionism made "government by injunction" a burning political issue; by 1930, Felix Frankfurter and Nathan Greene, in a classic book on the subject, were proposing a new law and writing that "injunctions ought never to become rou tine." Two years later, the Norris-La Guardia Act virtually eliminated them in federal courts, and later Supreme Court rulings eventually curbed state courts as well...