Word: anastasia
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That angered the infamous Albert Anastasia, a Costello crony and one time high executioner for Murder, Inc. Anastasia was further enraged when another old mobster buddy, Frank Scalise, was hit on Genovese's order a month later for selling memberships in Cosa Nostra for $50,000 apiece. To Anastasia's mind, that broke Lucky Luciano's old law that the Cosa Nostra higher-ups should never be physically punished but only fined by the grand council. Word went out that Anastasia would retaliate against Genovese...
...Genovese moved first, recruited Anastasia's own top lieutenant, Carlo Gambino, to help set up his boss for a hit. In October 1957, two Brooklyn hoods hired by Genovese gunned down Anastasia as he sat in a barber's chair in Manhattan's Park Sheraton Hotel. Seven more gunmen were waiting, just in case the first pair muffed...
...that bloody feud that led to the Apalachin summit meeting of Cosa Nostra higher-ups in November 1957. There the council approved Genovese's action, and he emerged as undisputed boss. For his part, Gambino inherited Anastasia's spot as a New York capo...
Died. Anthony ("Tough Tony") Anastasio, 57, boss of the Brooklyn docks, a ship-jumping Italian immigrant who shrewdly used the muscle of his brother, Murder Inc.'s Chief Executioner Albert Anastasia, to get to the top, then surprised everyone by staying there (and staying alive) even after Al's gangland murder in 1957; after a long illness; in Brooklyn. Charged with everything up to and including murder but never convicted, Tough Tony gained the grudging respect of dock employers as well as union men by getting the work done and increasing pay, fringe benefits and job opportunities...
...every morning. Gridley noticed an empty group of shelves where the so-called "Chinese laundry" collection had been kept before its transfer to the Yenching--bale after bale of Tibetan prayer sheets gathered in silk wrappers with colored silk tabs. But Gridley was hunting for the Anastasia papers, the documents pertaining to a glamorous heir to the throne of the Czars. Passing through the Theater section with its two million playbills, he unlocked another door and found himself in the Lincoln room. Death masks glared from the shelves and an ax well-worn from rail-splitting lay on a table...