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...Reporter Smith pocketed the guest list, copied from place cards, Mobster Giancana grumbled volubly on. He had a sneer for congressional investigating committees ("They couldn't catch me for a year; I like to hide from them"), a boost for syndicated crime ("What's wrong with the syndicate? Two or three of us get together on some deal and everybody says it's a bad thing. But those businessmen do it all the time and nobody squawks"), the back of his hand for the draft board that rated him a constitutional psychopath in 1943: "Who wouldn...
Like a Picnic. Smith also specializes in covering the mob's social functions as an uninvited and unanimously undesirable guest. In 1956 he borrowed a room in a neighboring house to survey a gala Fourth of July garden party flung by No. 1 Mobster Tony Accardo. Stung by all the publicity, Accardo subsequently shifted the party to the home of his chauffeur...
...raided and they are suddenly out of a job, they arrive at a garage to borrow a friend's car just in time to witness a painfully accurate re-creation of the St. Valentine's Day massacre of 1929. With Curtis and Lemmon cowering in a corner, Mobster George Raft and his henchmen line seven men against the wall and machine-gun them dead...
With a quiet smile the gamblers slipped fresh boutonnieres into their black silk lapels and got the games going for slim crowds on the day the decree came out. Florida Mobster Santo Trafficante Jr., who attended the famous gangland congress at Apalachin, N.Y. in November 1957, is still bossing the games at the Comodoro and the Sans Souci. He also keeps an eye on the Capri casino, where his associate is Mobster Charles ("The Blade") Tourine. Gambler Joseph Silesi. wanted for questioning after the New York barbershop murder of Top Hood Albert Anastasia, is casino manager at the Hilton. None...
Pastora NûÑez warned that the present permits, good only for 60 days, would not be renewed for mobster-owned casinos. The hoods hope that a batch of clean front men will meet the government inspection. One of them posed Castro's dilemma neatly: "Only gamblers can run casinos-you can't get a priest or a garage mechanic." The mob was quite happy to be working with a government noted for purity. Said one operator last week: "Me, I'm glad those greedy Batista crooks got bounced...