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Apparently satisfied with their $1,500,000 haul, the underworld brains who robbed Brink's garage have decided that enough is enough. Boston police yesterday discovered a note from the hold-up men, hastily scrawled in an untutored hand on a five-dollar bill, which stated tersely, "No Crime until Saturday...
Everybody knows somebody who knows something about Frank Costello. At least, that is the way TIME Reporter James A. Bell felt during his long investigation of the gambler and underworld figure who is the subject of this week's cover story. Bell's-and TIME'S-job was to try to separate the facts from the Costello legend and get behind the hitherto published material on Costello...
Last week, greying, hoarse-voiced, 58-year-old Frank Costello was fast becoming a figure of U.S. legend. Millions of newspaper readers considered him a kind of master criminal, shadowy as a ghost and cunning as Satan, who ruled a vast, mysterious and malevolent underworld and laughed lazily...
...recognized and respected among the barons of the underworld. He became an intimate of Arnold Rothstein, the great gambler and criminal banker; he gained the esteem and affection of Tammany Swagman Jimmy Hines. When Al Capone and the other big men of gangland met in the famous Atlantic City peace conference of 1929, Frank Costello took a leading part in calling for cartels in the 'rackets instead of armed competition-a role which gained him the title of "The Prime Minister of the Underworld...
...stage-struck hayseed from Ohio, Betty is in love with a struggling young director (Victor Mature). She is also in love with the tinsel night life of the big city, a yen which presently involves her in murder and a violent brush with the underworld...