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...handed up indictments against Mafia Kingpin Simone Rizzo ("Sam the Plumber") De Cavalcante and 54 others. Charged with operating an interstate numbers game that grossed $20 million a year, all face penalties of $10,000 and five years' imprisonment. Four, including De Cavalcante's "chief of staff," Alessio Barrasso, face additional fines of $10,000 or 20-year sentences for extortion...
...ready to escape. He lasts no more than four minutes onstage before he is forced to flee through the trap again. But to Offenbach fans at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, the sequence is one of the comic highpoints of the evening. The man responsible: Italian-born Tenor Alessio de Paolis (pronounced: Pow-o-lees), 64, who in a quarter-century at the Met has sung some 50 secondary roles and emerged as the finest character actor in opera...
...Died. Alessio Cardinal Ascalesi, 79, Archbishop of Naples and No. 1 ranking member of the College of Cardinals in point of service; after long illness; in Naples. His death leaves 23 vacancies in the 70-member College...
Died. Giovanni Battista Cardinal Nasalli-Rocca Di Corneliano, 80, archbishop of Bologna; of a heart attack; in Bologna. Created a cardinal in 1923 by Pope Pius XI, he ranked third in seniority in the College of Cardinals (No. 1: Alessio Cardinal Ascalesi, archbishop of Naples, critically ill this week following a heart attack). Active in the diplomatic service of three Pontiffs (Benedict XV, Pius XI, Pius XII), he played a vital part in negotiating the 1929 Lateran Treaty which established the Vatican as an independent state...
Soon the letterhead of the A.M.C. boasted such names as John Steinbeck, Clifton Fadiman, Walter Lippmann, John Hersey, Howard Lindsay, George Biddle, Christopher LaFarge, John Dos Passos, Margaret Culkin Banning, Robert St. John, Gregory d'Alessio, Gjon Mili. The first stock issue ($100,000) was sold out in eight weeks; a second (for $160,000) will be floated this week, and 20% of it is already spoken...