MANNERS & MORALS Lawyer Knows Best
At their frequent Eight-Ball dinners, members of the Greater Los Angeles Press Club like to rub elbows with men of distinction. President Truman addressed the club once; so did Vice President Alben Barkley and General Mark Clark. The guest speaker at the next dinner, the members decided, should be Manhattan's urbane and ubiquitous Frank Costello, sometime bootlegger and big-time gambler.
But last week the Press Club received a polite refusal. "While I deeply appreciate the great honor conferred on me . . ." Costello wrote, "I cannot accept ... I never made a speech...
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