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DRESS GRAY by Lucian K. Truscott IV Doubleday; 489 pages...
...directing attention to the power behind the scenes: the prestigious and secretive Wall Street investment house of Allen & Co. Inc., which owns approximately 7% of Columbia's stock, or 500,000 shares, worth some $7.2 million, and dominates Columbia's board. The article, which was written by Lucian K. Truscott IV, an aspiring novelist and a freelance journalist, asserted that Allen & Co. was seeking to sell out. Begelman's reinstatement and the condoning of his crimes, charged Truscott, were part of a scheme by Allen & Co. to show that all was well, in order to keep the stock price high...
...Author Truscott, a disaffected former West Pointer who has written mainly in Manhattan's Village Voice, never flatly accuses Charles Allen of direct Mafia connections, but the implications are strong. For example, he calls Allen "the godfather of Hollywood," and traces his rise in the film industry through a maze of allegedly Mob-infiltrated enterprises. According to Truscott, Charles Allen in 1955 bought a 25% stake in a Bahamian company that controlled a casino that was "manipulated" by Crime Boss Meyer Lansky, and one of Allen's partners in the venture was Wallace Groves, a convicted swindler. Then, aided...
...pair was on a hot streak, having won their last six duplicate matches. The Sunday before the tournament Robinson played on a five-man team with Alan Truscott, bridge editor for The New York Times...
...Truscott has published six of Robinson's hands in his column since 1972. On Friday, the first day of the tournament, he included one of the pair's recent hands and called them "one of the favored pairs" in the intercollegiate tournament...