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...skill at twirling and tossing dough ten feet into the air made Pizza Baker Camillo Calogero a consistent crowd pleaser at a Lynbrook, N.Y., pizzeria. Then, one day last September, his neck was broken in an auto accident; he was no longer able to make the flamboyant motions needed to fling high the pizza dough. The 33-year-old father of three children sued for damages. Rejecting a defense claim that pizza can be simply flattened on a table with the hands, and considering other injuries to Calogero, a twelve-man jury awarded him $335,000. At his old salary...
...July 15, 1943, a U.S. fighter plane flying a yellow banner emblazoned with a black "L" dropped a small nylon bag in the plaza of Villalba, Sicily. The bag was addressed to "Uncle Calo"-Calogero Vizzini, the millionaire chief of Italy's Mafia. In the bag was a gold foulard handkerchief belonging "to Gangster Lucky Luciano-a sign that Lucky wanted his old pals to play paisan to the Yanks. Four days later, when three U.S. tanks rolled into town, Vizzini climbed into one of them, clattered off to direct a joint Mafia-Allied operation, which pincered German...
...After serving 28 years of a life term for murder, in the Joliet, (Ill.) penitentiary, Calogero Boscio, 65, asked for his freedom. Until he got to prison, he said, he had been under the impression that he was being held only as a witness...
...College delegation, minimized because of conflicting examinations, came after the Massachusetts Committee for FEPC had issued a rally call to other organizations interested in the bill. On Saturday, the HLU's Committee for FEPC, headed by Calogero Taibi '49, posted placards throughout the College asking student representation at the rally...
...copies of our Mediterranean Edition are run off the fabulous Tumminelli Press in Rome-and very handsome copies they are, well printed by the gravure process. (The Tumminelli Press prints in 29 languages-produces almost all the learned books for the University of Rome. Its owner and manager, Calogero Tumminelli, is himself the author of an encyclopedia in 38 volumes...