Word: agente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...These Things Can Be Dangerous." In addition to buying records from Lormar, operators were forced to pay $3.60 per jukebox per year in protection money. In return they received the combined services of 1) Local 134, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, run by a business agent named Fred Thomas ("Jukebox Smitty") Smith, and 2) the Commercial Phonograph Survey Co. Commercial, assisted by Jukebox Smitty and a staff of ex-convicts, kept track of operators and their jukebox locations, ostensibly kept peace by preventing raiding. Estimated total shakedown cost to Chicago's operators: $100,000 a year...
...Squillante, tiny (5 ft. 1 in.) protege of assassinated Albert Anastasia (TIME, Nov. 4, 1957), was sentenced to 7½ to 15 years in prison for running a garbage extortion racket. With him the court sentenced his brother Nunzio Squillante (two to five years) and one Bernard Adelstein, business agent of Teamster Local 813 (five to ten years). Vincent Squillante's specialty was persuading Long Island businessmen to agree to have their garbage collected by a company operated by brother Nunzio Squillante. If they refused, they were threatened by thugs, picketed by Teamsters Union pickets. Once they signed, collection...
Emotional Gap. If a traveler with a tape recorder were to take down some of the folklore that is growing up about Harry Belafonte himself, not all the sounds would be pleasant. There are some tom-toms of jealousy. A discarded former agent says: "I hate him. We had a very close relationship, but how could I know he was going to turn into an Emperor Jones?" There are some mocking ditties to the effect that he takes himself too seriously. There is the blues of his first wife Marguerite, a former school teacher in Manhattan, who says: "I remember...
Dinner at Home. In the wake of success, the pressures mounted. Belafonte's first psychoanalyst was a woman whose husband happened to be a writer and sometime talent agent. Says Belafonte: ''Her husband took me over." While the doctor attempted an emotional analysis. the agent applied economic therapy. Before long, Harry broke with both the analyst and the agent. Then his marriage fell apart. "I didn't know the fireside and meals every night at 6," says Harry, but Marguerite knew little else. She now has custody of their two children, Adrienne, 9, and Shari...
...born Jacob A. Koukouzes on the Turkish island of Imros. His impressive qualifications for the position, second biggest in his church: 16 years as a Greek Orthodox theologian and chief vicar of congregations in New York and New England, four years as Greek Orthodoxy's highly effective liaison agent at World Council of Churches headquarters in Geneva...