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Two secondary villains-Joe Adonis, a sleek and handsomely sullen hood, and burly Bookmaker Frank Erickson-glowered briefly at the committee, answered no important questions, and departed, Adonis to his comfortable home in New Jersey, Erickson to his jail cell, where he is serving two years for bookmaking. The stage...
Spotlight on Saratoga Springs. While Costello considered the consequences of his walkout, the committee turned its spotlight briefly on Saratoga Springs, just 30 miles from Governor Tom Dewey's capital at Albany. Saratoga Detective Walter Ahearn gulped, squirmed, and like to have swallowed his gum under Senator Tobey'...
Virginia, who is now 34 and married to a Sun Valley ski instructor, admitted knowing just about every nobleman in Big Crime's hierarchy-Joe Adonis, Costello, Meyer Lansky, Charles Fischetti. But she didn't admit much more. Lolling negligently at the witness table, Virginia explained her unlimited...
An assistant state's attorney general testified that he had often seen O'Dwyer in Joe Adonis' Brooklyn restaurant in the '30s, along with other politicians; he thought it might have been O'Dwyer who introduced him to Adonis. A county pros ecutor estimated that...
For characterization, the real-life TV show was better than the movies. When lush Virginia Hill ("I didn't keep any books or accounts or anything") left the witness stand to a patter of applause, televiewers felt they knew all they needed to know about the free-spending, fur...