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...Waiter") Ricca. Glimco, with a record of 36 arrests, including two on murder charges, became a trustee of a Chicago Teamster local. In 1956, when Ricca was in trouble with the law and needed money urgently, Hoffa's own Local 299 and another Detroit local headed by Hoffa Pal Bert Brennan, now a Teamsters international vice president, jointly purchased Ricca's home in Long Beach, Ind. for $150,000. Appraised value: $85,000. Hoffa explained that the two locals planned to turn the house into a training school for Teamster business agents. Not one has been trained there...
...Pal Kosa seemed a model young Communist. He lived and worked in Ujpest, an industrial suburb of Budapest, was a member of the workers' committee and a party leader. But when the Russian tank columns moved to crush the revolution of October 1956, Pal Kosa opposed them. He led a crowd of fellow workers in overthrowing the Soviet war memorial in Ujpest, helped keep resistance going in his suburb long after the fighting had ceased throughout most of the country. On Nov. 12, Pal Kosa was captured by the vengeful puppet government of Janos Kadar...
Early this month Pal Kosa and seven others were lined against a wall in Budapest's Fo Utca prison and shot dead by a firing squad. At the secret trial of Pal Kosa and his friends, 182 witnesses were called for the prosecution, none for the defense. Some Ujpest Communists offered to testify for the defendants but were refused a hearing by Hungary's hanging judge, Janos Borbaly. Not a word about the trial or execution appeared in Hungarian newspapers, but word leaked out to the Manchester Guardian's Victor Zorza, a Polish exile with excellent contacts...
...awful conditions have steadily deteriorated since the fall of 1949, when Guido and a boyhood pal named Johnny Noga scraped up $10,000 to go to a sheriff's sale and buy a bankrupt nightclub. Guido deployed his wife Eleanor at the cash register, Johnny married Helen, the head waitress, and they began to book some musical acts. Along with Brubeck and Mulligan, jazz stars as well as pop singers drifted into the Hawk-Chet Baker, Miles Davis, Erroll Garner, Dorothy Dandridge, Johnny Mathis. Regulars remember how Eleanor Caccienti refused to ring the cash register when Dizzy Gillespie...
...usual crowds of admirers and autograph hunters were missing when Billy landed at Moscow's airport. In his party: boyhood pal and associate Grady Wilson, his male secretary and two U.S. businessmen-Printing Tycoon William Jones of Los Angeles, who had persuaded Graham to take the trip, and Charlotte (N.C.) Department Store Owner Henderson Belk, who was taking Bible instruction from Billy en route. Sightseeing with American reporters and an Intourist guide, Billy did a double take at the large gold crosses atop the Kremlin churches. "There is a symbol I never expected to see here," he said...