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...counter, proceeded to stake out the future. Top items on the agenda: a call on his aging mother, a thank-you note to Justice Douglas, and a reunion with his showgirl friend, Sandy Hagen, 22. Insisted Mickey, for all the world as though he had beaten the rap: "I'm going to marry her as soon as I get court permission...
...announces: "Harry Hubris and I have never met vis-a-vis, but in the aristocracy of success there are no strangers." In the end, the Yalie is so corrupted that he slips a $500,000 bribe to a California judge (Lahr) to help his sweetheart beat an indecency rap (dancing with a gorilla while scantily clad...
...months early for good behavior during a five-year stretch for income tax evasion. Racketeer Frank Costello, 70, left federal custody in downtown Manhattan, headed north to Riker's Island workhouse to finish a 30-day New York sentence for contempt of court. When freed on this final rap, the old bootlegger, whose take from assorted enterprises once approximated $4,000,000 a year, plans to return to his Sands Point. L.I., estate "to tend my roses." But the U.S. Justice Department has other ideas. It hopes to send the now denaturalized immigrant on a longer journey-back...
...N.A.A.C.P. convention to Atlanta (addressed one session personally, using the almost-unheard-of salutation: "Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen . . ."), desegregated the city's golf courses in 1956, recently ended taxicab segregation. Last week, as he discussed his departure, puckish Baptist Hartsfield could not resist one final rap to redneck knuckles: a threat to reconsider if the Democratic primary nominates an unworthy successor...
...Commencement exercises will begin when University Marshal J. Hampden Robb '21 turns to Fitzpatrick, saying, "Mr. Sheriff, pray give us order." Fitzpatrick will then rap three times with his sheathed sword and state, "The meeting will be in order." At the close, he will declare the meeting adjourned...