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Frankie Costello is an underworldling with a difference: he has more money than most bank presidents and he never seems to be around when any rough stuff is going on. This enables him to maintain a snug Manhattan apartment and a big house in the Long Island countryside, to contribute...
Scurrying for Cover. Last week some 150 politicos and others dutifully showed up at Manhattan's gaudy Copacabana nightclub. So, unfortunately, did two reporters. Next day there were wild cries of dismay as the distinguished guests scurried for cover. The reporters had spotted five judges of the state Supreme...
Jaffa's subsequent defeat in the national election rendered him eligible for the regional office in time for Saturday afternoon's caucus. This factor set off an intricate chain of events so complicated as to make the machinations of Tammany Hall appear amateurish. The links of this chain in the...
The Leche-Long ticket won, but afterward nobody had time for Earl. The gang rushed to the public trough and swilled up wealth with porcine delight. Leche, a fat and jolly man, built himself a mansion on the exclusive St. Tammany "Gold Coast." George Caldwell, an even fatter man, who...
An oldtime Tammany Sachem once remarked that he would rather have the New York Times against him than for him, because the Times always leaned over backwards in reporting on its enemies. Barnstorming in Manchester, N. H. last week, Presidential Candidate Henry Wallace had reason to feel the same way...