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...hours later, dressed in his best suit and a white sailor cap, Artie walked into the Waldorf and explained that his mother was waiting at La Guardia Field with his ticket. He fumbled when the airport bus driver asked for the $1.25 fare until a kindly passenger coughed up. There was no problem at the field: he just walked up the gangway with everybody else, settled down in a seat beside the window, soon, high over eastern Pennsylvania, he was chatting with the stewardess and sipping chicken broth...
...transcontinental passengers without a stowaway. He was hauled off to a children's shelter, got 50? from a St. Louis cop en route, and shipped home the following day to his widowed mother, who was not amused. "You know," Artie told reporters who met him at La Guardia, "I'll probably get spanked for this...
Morris started the fireworks. He is a wealthy, 47-year-old Yale man who was one of Fiorello La Guardia's most active proteges and is backed by Labor's David Dubinsky. Holding the mantle of the Little Flower like a bullfighter's cape, he leaped into the arena, flapped it at the mayor-and then set hurriedly off after that well-scuffed political kigmy, Gambler Frank Costello. He implied heatedly that Costello ruled Tammany and that Tammany ruled O'Dwyer. He did not document the allegation, but for all that, it had a fine, wild...
...stage drama is carefully screened), so that the people are kept in ignorance, and can be tuned to official propaganda. Another reason is that the Army is kept large and happy. All bank entrances, sports events, and small gatherings are well attended by Franco's neat, prosperous, green-uniform "Guardia Civil...
...during the negotiations, 1,500 government reinforcements arrived from outside the city. Arevalo got his nerve back, withdrew his terms, reopened the battle. Government forces burst into Fort Guardia de Honor that night to find that 400 of its 600 defenders had made for the hills. Colonel Barrios had sought asylum in the Salvadorean embassy. The toll of the fighting was estimated at 200 killed, 500 wounded...