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...spontaneity derived partly from the fact that the lawyers involved were real, some of the best courtroom performers in New York (Richard Steel William Geoghan Jr., Charles Haydon,' Benedict Ginsberg), who ad-libbed much of their argument. On the griddle this week: Huey Long. Later: Arnold Rothstein, "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, and former New York Mayor James J. Walker...
...Best of Everyone. The snag was that after getting the best of everyone, 24 hours a day, Rothstein still felt unwanted, unloved and even uncertain. But the cure for this was in his billfold: "Whenever he had self-doubts he could count his money." To facilitate this, Rothstein carried all his bills in his pocket-until the roll grew so fat from graft and gambling that he had to put some of it in the bank...
...Arnold Rothstein was a dedicated man. His clothes were plain and neat. He drank nothing stronger than milk, had a fierce respect for "good" women, including his wife. He would boast to friends about his wife's fidelity, liked phoning her from nightspots, when she was asleep at home, and bleating: "Sweetheart, I want you to tell Tom 'hello' "-after which he would pass over the receiver for Tom to hear for himself the little woman's sleepy, saintly squeaks...
...years passed and his sources of information became widespread and quite reliable, Rothstein made millions by investing in fixed situations and "just letting them happen." By betting on the fixes of others, Rothstein also kept his hands technically clean-he was never convicted of breaking the law. In the case of the 1919 World Series, Rothstein has often been accused of having fixed the Chicago White Sox players' defeat. He denied it, but he probably prompted the fix and certainly won $350,000 by betting...
...Eventually Rothstein owned pieces of so many sorts of businesses-including real estate, rumrunning, narcotics, bookmaking, insurance. Wall Street bucket shops, trade unions, racing stables, bail bonds-that he was quite unable to count his money. The result was fatal. Faced for once in his life with a big gambling debt, he had doubts about his solvency and refused to pay up. Eight weeks later, on Nov. 4, 1928, he was shot in the belly in Room 349 of the Park Central Hotel on Manhattan's Seventh Avenue and died two days later, after crying...