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Self-deported from the U.S. in order to beat a federal perjury rap, New Jersey Mobster Joe Adonis was greeted as a local boy who made good by admiring townfolk of Montemarano in southern Italy. In honor of "Don Giuseppe, the miliondrio Americano," a great big hero's welcome blared from the steps of the town hall, where the town fathers, a brass band and Montemarano's two carabinièri, got up in three-cornered hats and fulldress swallowtails, assembled for the banner day. Deeply touched, Milionário Adonis later reportedly choked out wet-eyed promises...
After that, still in a chatty mood, the President wandered into a subject of compelling interest to many another Americano, both of the North and the South: "I cannot give up smoking, because I like it very much. When people ask me why I do not stop, I reply that cigarettes, to me, are like the little sandbags that balloons carry: when the balloonists cannot rise higher, they drop a sandbag-and there they go, up again. I shall do the same. The day I feel stuck I will drop smoking; but why should...
...Tammany Hall." Copies of the Wall Street Journal (New York City circ. 14,576) and Journal of Commerce (N.Y.C. circ. 13,310) were grabbed up as soon as they hit the stands. Even such foreign-language dailies as La Prensa, Staats-Zeitung und Her old and Il Progresso Italo-Americano sold fast. The sensational weekly Enquirer (est. circ. 75,000) turned into a daily and upped its press run the first day of the strike to 250,000, went to 500,000, then was forced to skip a few days because "we're awfully tired." Newspaper-hungry readers bought...
...Father Walter I Hogan, Manila's "labor priest," has mad himself some formidable enemies (TIMI March 12, 1951). But he has had the COE consistent support of Papal Nuncio Egidi Vagnozzi, a brisk, 46-year-old Italia whose plain speaking long ago got him th nickname of "II Americano" in Vatica circles. Since his arrival 2½-years ago Archbishop Vagnozzi has given heavy be hind-the-scenes support to the efforts of Roman Catholics like Philadelphian He gan to give Filipinos a fresh deal before the Communists do. He has also strengthened the position of his church...
...last week, Vissering seemed to have established his beachhead. Two hundred non-Communist dockers, at regular union rates, had cleared 40 ships. The first U.S. troops had disembarked without even a catcall. Livorno's streets were now lively; restaurant menus had added hamburger and ham & eggs all' americano. Always the realists, the Communists said: "Of course we still disapprove of the U.S. warmongers . . . but we cannot stand between our union members and paying jobs...