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With all of New York State's politicos in an uproar about labor racketeering and shakedown at harness-racing tracks (TIME, Oct. 5-12), it was a foregone conclusion that the issue would be dragged into the New York City mayoralty campaign. Last week Robert Wagner Jr., the Democratic...
With puckish grin and rolling eye, he surveyed the achievements of two years of Tory government. "We are not without some satisfaction," he said, and the understatement got a roar. "Danger is farther away than when we went into harness . . . Recovery will grow surer and firmer as the clattering months...
No Need to Fear. When the murder at the Yonkers track got other Manhattan papers interested in the harness-racing scandals, Newsday was ready. It had already turned its evidence over to the New York City Anti-Crime Committee, which handed it out to other papers to use in digging...
Although it is published in Garden City, Long Island, a quiet suburb 20 miles from the bustle of Manhattan, Alicia Patterson's tabloid Newsday (circ. 180,964) has never been content to lead the quiet life of a suburbanite. Almost two months ago, when Yonkers Raceway's Labor...
The story didn't stop with De Koning. Newsday told how the Roosevelt owners, led by Racketeer Lucky Luciano's onetime lawyer, George Morton Levy, got control of the Yonkers track. In a byline copyright interview with Hathway, Lawyer Levy admitted his group had lobbied a law through...