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...income tax returns are getting a thorough going over. Among the 126 names: Joe Adonis; Ralph ("Bottles") Capone, brother of "Scarface Al"; Anthony ("Little Augie" Pisano) Carfano; Louis ("Little New York") Campagna; Paul ("The Waiter") Ricca; Charles ("Cherry Nose") Gioe; Frank Diamond; Rocco Fischetti; Vito Genovese; Irving ("Waxey Gordon") Wexler and Frank Costello...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 2, 1951 | 4/2/1951 | See Source »

...been too assured, his personality did not charm the voters, and he had tried to win without discussing the issues. But when all of this was said, his had been a remarkable career: a racket-busting prosecutor at 33 who put behind bars "Lucky" Luciano, Irving ("Waxey Gordon") Wexler, Tammany's Jimmy Hines, .Wall Street's Richard Whitney and many a little name in the loan and extortion rackets; at 40, an honest, efficient governor and able politician who had cut taxes, backed a veterans' bonus, rent control, and the nation's most workable law against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: But Not Goodbye | 6/26/1950 | See Source »

...United States Weather Bureau isn't convinced. Despite extravagant publicity in the press, Harry Wexler, chief of the Bureau's Special Scientific Services Division, says flatly that "it has not been demonstrated that cloud seeding is a factor in producing a significant amount of precipitation." In nine months of its own tests in Ohio the Weather Bureau got few results unless there was natural rain within 30 miles, none without natural rain within 40-60 miles. According to Wexler, the New Mexico tests were inconclusive. Rain occurred somewhere in the state whenever the researchers operated, and also when they...

Author: By Daniel Ellsberg, | Title: BRASS TACKS | 6/2/1950 | See Source »

Harvard actors are Jerry Kohn '50, Marvin Mazic '52, Norman Wexler '49, John Keough '52, Robert Berger '52, Sidney Ball '50, and John Simon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex, Idler Stages Marital Comedy | 4/28/1949 | See Source »

Students who will take part in the play are: Robert L. Berger '52, Peter H. Davison '49, John F. Keogh, Jr. '52, Jerry H. Kohn, Jr. '52, Marvin E. Mazie '52, John I. Simon 3G, and Norman S. Wexler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Idler Picks Male Cast | 3/19/1949 | See Source »

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