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...residence. But when agents arrived to arrest him, Dellacroce claimed to be sick and was taken to Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital. He joined Anthony ("Tony Ducks") Corallo, 72, boss of the Lucchese family, who had anticipated his imminent arrest and checked in earlier, claiming to be suffering from chest pains. Philip ("Rusty") Rastelli, 67, the Bonanno family don, complained in court that he too felt chest pains and was rushed to Beekman Downtown Hospital, where doctors found him well enough to return to jail. Ralph Scopo, 56, a reputed soldier in the Colombo family and regional president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Big Night for Chest Pains | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

...night for chest pains," said one federal investigator about the arrests on racketeering charges of nine New York City mobsters, including the leaders of the five Mafia families in the city. U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, who brought the indictments, suspects that the Mafiosi were trying to establish a record of illness in hope of proving they are too ill to stand trial or to endure imprisonment if convicted. Several, in fact, do have | various illnesses, including heart ailments. "If a guy claims he's sick and, like Dellacroce, he looks sick, we take him to a hospital," said the investigator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Big Night for Chest Pains | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

...perfect murder. He kills a Harvard graduate (David) and has a party the night of the murder where he and his accomplice entertain David's parents, his fiance, a romantic rival and Rupert. The unsuspecting guilty anxiously await David's arrival dining all the while on the chest it which he is entombed...

Author: By Neil Bernstein, | Title: Eerie Ideology | 3/8/1985 | See Source »

...come booted and hatted to do the two-steps and Western Swing on the sawdust-sprinkled dance floor Bruce's also beasts the best Rocky Mountain. Oysters in the state (Those, by the way, are deep the bull testicles. Don't knock 'em--they'll put on anyone's chest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Short Trips | 3/5/1985 | See Source »

...retired autoworker becomes the third recipient of the Jarvik-7 ONCE AGAIN THE SOUNDS OF CLASSICAL MUSIC FILLED THE OPERATING ROOM AT HUMANA HOSPITAL AUDUBON IN LOUISVILLE. AND ONCE AGAIN, AS THE OPERATION DREW TO A CLOSE, A STRANGE, PERCUSSIVE ACCOMPANIMENT AROSE FROM THE PATIENT'S CHEST: ch, ch, ch. FOR DR. WILLIAM DEVRIES, THE ONLY SURGEON IN THE WORLD AUTHORIZED TO IMPLANT THE ARTIFICIAL HEART, THESE WERE THE SOUNDS OF SUCCESS, AS REASSURING TO HIM AS A NEWBORN'S FIRST SQUEAL IS TO THE OBSTETRICIAN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Medicine: Mar. 4, 1985 | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

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