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Died. Charles Atlas, 80, the original "97-lb. weakling" who developed into the king of mail-order bodybuilders; of a heart attack; in Long Beach, N.Y. An Italian farm boy (real name: Angelo Siciliano), Atlas migrated to New York with his parents in 1904. He suffered from anemia and began a daily regimen of isometric exercises that turned him into a vaudeville strongman. With a 13-week bodybuilding course to sell. Atlas in 1928 was joined by Adman Charles Roman, who dubbed the system "Dynamic Tension" and created the cartoon of a hollow-chested, preAtlas adolescent having sand kicked...
...into Alessio's financial dealings six years ago, did not think so. Despite reported special pleading on his behalf that delayed the inquiry, Big John, three of his six brothers and his son were indicted for failing to report $1.2 million of taxable income. Big John and Brother Angelo finally pleaded guilty last year (charges against the others were dropped) and received sentences of three years and one year respectively...
Hanky-panky, however, seems to have continued. Last week a federal grand jury in San Diego and Los Angeles indicted Big John and Angelo, their brother Tony and John's son Dominic for conspiring to bribe a guard and other prison officials in exchange for certain favors that made their prison stay rather fun. A week prior, another grand jury in San Diego indicted Angelo, Tony, Dominic and two prison officials for bribery...
Chicken Delight. Back at the honor camp, Angelo and Big John, whose visitors included Smith, Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty and former California Governor Pat Brown, were not exactly suffering. None of that gummy convict chow for them. They ordered out. According to one inmate: "The Chicken Delight truck used to pull up at the honor camp regularly." Security was so loose that Angelo once went hunting with one of the guards. The indictment says further that both brothers were often chauffeured out of the camp by a prison official for unauthorized visits to motels, where they conducted business...
...Angelo, 55, who was paroled after serving 5½ months of his one-year prison term, and Big John, 62, face sentences of 20 and five years respectively and three prison officials have been fired. Last week Dominic speaking for the Alessios declared: "We are innocent of any wrongdoing." Big John himself has been transferred to a maximum-security prison on McNeil Island near Tacoma, Wash. Chicken Delight does not deliver there...