Word: plays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opening address, Attorney Cross indicated that a minor witness in the first trial might play a major role in this one. Cross declared that he would prove that it was not Alger Hiss but another former State Department employee, Henry Julian Wadleigh, who had fed the controversial State Department documents to ex-Communist Courier Whittaker Chambers. The defense had hinted the same thing in the first trial, but could not make it stick. Preliminaries over, Chambers took the stand...
Jostling armies of liquid-eyed children still play in its filthy, glass-strewn alleys, its dark hallways, and in vacant lots, where the refuse of generations is packed solid, a foot higher than the sidewalks. Its old men are sad. The young men who haunt its streets by night-callow bravoes with oiled black hair, sharp suits and the melancholy curse of pimples-loiter in knots with expressionless faces, just as they did when Frank Costello had a gun in his pocket and was one of them...
...lasting partnership with Dandy Phil Kastel, a dapper little enterpriser who had whetted 'his wits as manager of a Montreal restaurant and operator of a Manhattan bucket shop. Costello and Kastel formed the Tru-Mint Novelty Corp. and gave the enthusiastic New York public a chance to play slot machines. He told Kastel: "If a guy named Hershey could make all that dough on a 5? candy bar, maybe there's an angle here...
...basketball star who turned down several pro offers in order to get on with his career as musician and composer, finally signed up with the Boston Celtics at $15,000 a season when they wrote an unusual clause into his contract: between halves he will be allowed to play his accordion for the customers...
...network will play requests for members of the audience, and will air records from private collections if their owners bring them to the broadcast...