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...bounce back to the high wall of fame? In recent months, Frank Sinatra has managed to irritate a crowd of 10,000 in Australia, sue a well-known producer for breach of contract and make it widely known that he "would rather punch him in the face," display scorn in public for Marlon Brando, alienate the affections of Sam Goldwyn, mount a wide-open attack on another entertainer in a prominent newspaper ad ("Ed Sullivan, You're sick . . . P.S. Sick! Sick! Sick...
Last week, just before LIFE published "Wide-Open Galveston Mocks Texas Laws," Gambling Boss Fertitta was tried for simple assault in the Galveston justice court. After Fertitta pleaded "not guilty" and then refused to take the stand, Justice J. L. McKenna found Fertitta guilty, gave him the maximum punishment: a $25 fine. The conviction was much more important than the small fine. In Galveston, where gang leaders like Fertitta have long tried to pose as legitimate businessmen, the criminal conviction reported on Page One of Texas newspapers helped to expose these "legitimate businessmen" for the thugs they...
...appropriations bills cannot contain substantive legislation, it has long been the custom for the Rules Committee to set terms under which points of order are waived during floor action. But not this time: the Rules Committee coldly sent Clarence Cannon's bill to the House under a wide-open rule, placing it at the mercy of every point of order that might be raised...
...Street has remained pretty much the same. The place has been cleaned up a bit (Peewee's now houses a dry-cleaning establishment, and Handy Park is green among the pool halls), but on payday nights and Saturdays, a portion of it is almost the same old dangerous, wide-open Beale Street. There is one difference, however: about a dozen years ago, under Boss Crump, all east-west streets in Memphis were designated avenues, and Beale Street became Beale Avenue...
...cross-country airplane pilots, an old dream, recently realized, is an electronic navigation system that tells the direction and distance to the airport of destination. The trouble is that it has been realized not in one system but in two. As a result, the flying industry is split wide-open over which system should be adopted...