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...silent era, who played in more than 50 pre-talkie movies, most often as a mannishly tailored career woman or a sophisticated society girl in such films as Cecil B. DeMille's Saturday Night and Manslaughter (both 1922), and in his original The Ten Commandments (1923); in the Bronx, N.Y. She was the second wife of the silents' "Great Lover," John Gilbert, from 1922 to '24, and bore him a daughter...
...Wells Fargo robbery last week is one of the largest cash heists in U.S. history, the record being the $11 million stolen from a Sentry armored car in the Bronx in 1982. The theft is one of several holdups in the past few years for the once impregnable security- and cash-transfer company. Only one day after the New York stickup, two masked men with revolvers filched $106,000 from a Wells Fargo guard in Miami Lakes...
...child of the Bronx, Pinckney visited the other New York boroughs, * sampling different styles like a linguist studying accents. In Manhattan, he learned power, in Queens finesse. Brooklyn showed Pinckney the attraction of flamboyance, but it is unlike him to display any. Massimino's preaching of "the perfect game" impressed the 6-ft. 9 1/2-in. senior center and fascinated him. "On a one-shot deal, we can beat anyone in the United States," the coach urged, and had Pinckney not believed him, would what the others thought have mattered? Though only by two points and a rebound statistically, he outplayed...
...autobiographical urge through a fictional character. Presidents and Prime Ministers aside, the novel is patterned on the life and times of Herman Wouk, 69, the author of The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War and War and Remembrance. Wouk and Goodkind were born in the same year in The Bronx. Both are sons of laundry owners. Both share Russian-Jewish ancestry and religious orthodoxy. Both author and character wrote plays and humor at Columbia University and had early careers recycling old gags for radio...
...wiretapped talks released by the FBI to Bronx prosecutors, Masselli describes the Jo-Pel operation and speaks of his bond with Schiavone executives: "They trust me, them guys. I'm the only guy they'll work with." The D.A.'s office also claims that Donovan cosigned a $200,000 check to Masselli as payment in the equipment-rental agreement...