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...Albert Anastasia, affectionately known as "The Mad Hatter." Genovese approached Carlo Gambino, then only an ambitious Anastasia lieutenant, and convinced him that they would both be better off with Anastasia dead. Gambino quickly got the point. On Oct. 25, 1957, just as Anastasia had settled back comfortably in a barber chair in Manhattan's Park-Sheraton Hotel, his bodyguard conveniently excused himself. Two men walked in quickly, drew pistols and turned Anastasia and the shop into a blood-spattered nightmare. It was the last murder of a major Cosa Nostra leader...
...noon of the first day of hearings, it was publicly plain that the bill had no chance in committee, much less in the House. Of the 25 committee members, only four-all Republicans-spoke in favor of it. One of them, New York's Barber Conable, was so persuasive that Connally suggested that he should be the chief spokesman for the bill. No one disagreed. Connally was not in this instance playing his usual role of supersalesman. Mills was overheard saying: "His heart was not in it." When Tennessee Democrat Richard Fulton ended his questioning, he told the Secretary...
Richard T. Gill '48-the musical Master of Leverett House-will start a new career next fall as a professional opera singer. Gill is reported to have signed a contract with the New York City Opera Company for next season's production of The Barber of Seville...
...Gill, who has a basso profundo voice well suited to the Italian comic opera, will sing the role of Basilio, the pudgy priest who is chaplain in the court of Count Almaviva. The plot of Barber is based on a play of Beaumarchais, and is related to the plot of Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro...
...Barber, written by Rossini in 1816, comes after Figaro chronologically, but the action of the play is a prelude to that of the Mozart opera. In his role as Don Basilio, Gill will be called on to sing one of the most memorable parts of the opera, the "calumny" aria...