Word: partner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inviting Burglars. In New Orleans, Kefauver drove into town past big neon signs advertising Costello's swank Beverly Club. New Orleans is the domain of Costello's partner, "Dandy Phil" Kastel, and of Carlos ("The Little Man'') Marcello, a squat Sicilian who controls the racing wire for Chicago's Capone syndicate. Marcello is a partner with Kastel and Costello in the Beverly Club, owns a jukebox company, slot machines and a fleet of shrimping vessels. Last year he publicly pistol-whipped a man in the heart of New Orleans, but not a single witness...
...about muscling into the S & G Syndicate, which did a $26 million-a-year business supplying Continental's racing wire news to its own bookies. Continental abruptly switched off S & G's service. After several days of futile resistance, S & G took in a new partner-Harry Russell...
...Governor Fuller Warren's campaign. Russell was a good friend of Johnston's, and his efforts to subdue S & G were greatly helped by the governor's special investigator, who obligingly raided S & G books pointed out by Russell. When Russell became an S & G partner, the investigator as obligingly withdrew from the scene...
Then in Chicago, another committee investigating team learned from a mobster that Harry Russell was a longtime partner of Tony Accardo himself. Later, checking the records of the Erie & Buffalo policy wheel, the Chicago team found a 1949 income-tax report made out by Accardo and Guzik as partners. They were getting $278,666 from the wheel, the report showed, but investigators were more interested in another item further down. The partners had claimed a loss of $7,252 on the S & G Syndicate in Florida. That frugal claim was the first solid proof that Russell had muscled...
Ironically, Royal Wedding's plot seems no less a banal fiction for patterning itself loosely on the true story of how the famed dance team of Adele & Fred Astaire broke up. The movie's Astaire and his sister-partner (Jane Powell) are musicomedy favorites who dabble in an occasional romance, but shun matrimony on the theory that they owe themselves exclusively to their joint career. When they go to London to do a show, romance pairs Jane with a young peer (Peter Lawford) and Fred with a chorus girl (competently played by Winston Churchill's daughter, Sarah...