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...Police Edward J. Allen of Youngstown, Ohio, who had already told the committee: "If it wasn't for corrupt politicians, I might say Frankie Costello wouldn't be in the position he is today." Racketeers like Costello, he added, "all start out with a piece of lead pipe in their hands...
...Pipes & Panics. The underwriting started in 1808, when Alexander Brown and others put up $250,000 for Baltimore's first wooden pipe waterworks. As Brown's four sons joined the business, the firm opened branches in Philadelphia, New York and London, and old Alex was soon established as Baltimore's top financial brain. In 1812, when a British fleet was bombarding nearby Fort McHenry, Brown wrote: "I cannot think that they will ever destroy Baltimore." While other merchants fled, Brown helped keep the business community functioning. Years later, when a money panic threatened to wreck Baltimore...
...Sleep Till Noon" is far inferior to the author's earlier works. The plot, or rather the gimmick to which the sequence of events is tenuously affixed, is an imbecile's effort to follow the advice of his father: "'Get rich, boy,' he would say, filling his corncob pipe with cigarette buts I had had collected for him during the day. 'Get rich, boy. Then sleep till noon and screw...
...produces his My Friend Irma (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS) as well as Luigi, the new, extraverted Howard wears tasseled shoes, owns a pedigreed Airedale and lives in a penthouse. He drives a Cadillac convertible with the top down, even though it's bad for his sinus, smokes a pipe though he prefers cigarettes, goes to Palm Springs for his sun tan though he would rather go to San Francisco, stay indoors and read. During rehearsals he regularly throws calculated tantrums, thumps the table, bites his necktie and otherwise acts as an uninhibited genius is expected to act. His actors...
...only clues are a circle of tin, two inches in diameter, and a five-inch piece of iron pipe. Randall also gathered a small quantity of grey powder from the window sill. He is sending all the items to the Cambridge police for chemical analysis...