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...union funds, could get a maximum sentence of 30 years on the federal conviction. ¶ In Mineola, L.I., Vincent Squillante, tiny (5 ft. 1 in.) protege of assassinated Albert Anastasia (TIME, Nov. 4, 1957), was sentenced to 7½ to 15 years in prison for running a garbage extortion racket. With him the court sentenced his brother Nunzio Squillante (two to five years) and one Bernard Adelstein, business agent of Teamster Local 813 (five to ten years). Vincent Squillante's specialty was persuading Long Island businessmen to agree to have their garbage collected by a company operated by brother...
...Manhattan, where wrestling fans bought out Madison Square Garden seven times last year and caused two small-scale riots, the most popular musclemen make up the tag team of Antonino Rocco and Miguel Perez. Rocco does so well that he is the highest paid wrestler now in the racket. He owns a ranch in Argentina and earns close to $180,000 a year. At least ten others, Mondt insists, make $80,000 or more; the majority earn between...
...some of his funniest poems Betjeman is given to adolescent admiration of female tennis players ("Pam, I adore you, Pam, you great big mountainous sports girl"). He cries to be a sports girl's racket, pressed to her breast or flying in the sunlit air. But Betjeman is not chiefly a poet of humor. Born a Quaker, but now a deeply serious Anglican, he can write of religion with earnest simplicity or with a chuckle ("The old Great Western Railway makes me very sorry for my sins...
Stashing away one racket for another, rangy Negro Tennistar Althea Gibson began work on her first Hollywood role: a slave who ladles Southern comfort to her mistress when the boys ride off in old pro Director John Ford's Civil Warmup, The Horse Soldiers...
Historian-Educator Jacques Barzun can be a mean critter when aroused, as he has been of late by contemporary prose (a "mixture of jargon, cant, vogue words, and loose syntax"). Higher Learning (he could find only "an immense amount of Lower Learning" in the U.S.), and the Ph.D. racket (TIME, Nov. 25, 1957). In American Scholar Barzun castigates his latest victim: detective stories, which, he says, have fallen on evil days, turning increasingly into "novels of haze and daze...