Word: halley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crime Syndicated (Tues. 9 p.m., CBS-TV). Since his standout performance as special counsel of the Senate Crime Investigating Committee last March, Rudolph Halley has become a political candidate (for president of the New York City Council), a Hearst columnist and a TV actor. In Crime Syndicated, his first sponsored show, Halley takes his audience on a Cook's tour of the underworld. Highlight: a dramatized sketch about dope peddlers, which came to the surprising conclusion that crime does pay, showed how a Government witness was intimidated by hoodlums in court and then murdered before she could testify again...
...Manhattan, Rudolph Halley, who made news on television as the file-voiced chief questioner for the Kefauver Crime Investigating Committee, signed on for another TV role. When radio's popular Gangbusters goes on CBS television next month, he will be its narrator. Salary: more than $2,000 a week...
This week, when Lyons reappeared in court, he was no longer his own counsel. His new advocate: the Kefauver Committee's Rudolph Halley. Nevertheless Judge Knox ruled that news sources are not privileged; the judge would decide later whether Lyons' items are relevant. If so, Lyons will have to name his sources or be charged with contempt...
Since then, the lawmakers have been flooded with one of their biggest mailings in history. Committee members and Lawyer Halley got the most, but one non-committee Senator reported a thousand letters in three days, each demanding that the committee continue its work...
Untiring, acid-tongued Rudolph Halley, the committee's chief counsel and inquisitor, began digging into the ex-mayor's past. There was O'Dwyer's story that his only business with Gangster Frank Costello had been a visit to Costello's apartment in 1942 in the course of an investigation O'Dwyer was conducting as an Army officer. Why did the leader of Tammany Hall and other important New York political figures happen to be there at the same time? O'Dwyer had no idea-it was just coincidence...