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...little girl's near-tragedy were not enough, last week Brooklyn produced another LSD case with still more ominous implications. Mrs. Florence Cooper, 57, was found slashed to death in her apartment, and police called on her son-in-law, Stephen Henry Kessler, 30, for routine questioning. Kessler, the cops said, asked excitedly: "Did I kill my wife? Did I rape anyone? What have I done?" Then he added: "Man, I've been flying for three days...
...Failure at Questions. The whole thing started in 1957 when Mrs. Surowitz sought an expert to hatch her little nest egg. Proudly, she turned to her son-in-law, Irving Brilliant, a Phi Beta Kappa, Columbia-trained economist and a Harvard Law School graduate. Brilliant recommended Hilton; so doggedly did he handle Mrs. Surowitz's cash and some of his own that by 1960 their combined Hilton investment totaled $45,000 in common stock, plus a $10,000 debenture. Then, in 1962, Mrs. Surowitz received a curious letter from Hilton: the company was offering to buy 300,000 shares...
...Where Murder Inc. once made lethal lead pay big dividends, the two-bit Gallo and Profaci mobs cannot even afford to fix the cops. Tough Tony Anastasio, the stevedore Caesar who ruled the waterfront for a generation before he died in 1963, has been succeeded by a Ciceronic son-in-law, Brooklyn College Graduate Anthony-never Tony-Scotto...
...against New Jersey's popular Republican U.S. Senator, Clifford Case, who comes up for re-election in 1966. Whelan has been realistic enough to win the support of Jersey City's present Democratic boss, John V. Kenny-even to the point of naming Kenny's son-in-law to a $20,000-a-year post as administrator of the city medical center. In a campaign against Case, Whelan's pitch would be his familiarity with the problems of New Jersey's cities. "The ills of our cities are the greatest internal problem America has today...
...parents think of the whole thing? If Anne McDonnell Ford said anything it was only to her closest friends. The night after the wedding, Henry, a more public personage, was at a party in Detroit. When a good friend asked him what he thought of his new son-in-law, he said: "He is a very nice...