Word: cosenza
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Craps. The twisting road which led Frank Costello to a tower apartment on Central Park West began in Cosenza, Italy, where, in 1891, he was born Francesco Castiglia, sixth child of a debt-burdened farmer. He was brought to New York when he was four; his father opened a hole-in-the-wall grocery on East 108th Street, and he was exposed early.to the neighborhood heroes: the torpedoes who worked for Giro Terranova, red-handed boss of the Unione Siciliana in Harlem and The Bronx...
...Fascist internment camp at Ferremonte, presented himself to the U.S. Lieut. Larry Garcia, C.O., then brought in another black gentleman: His Excellency Mangesha Woube, former Ethiopian Ambassador to Italy. Ever since Italy grabbed Ethiopia in 1935, the Ambassador and his aide had been comfortably interned in a village near Cosenza. Happy and well treated, they did not want to leave, but Lieut. Garcia had orders to forward them to the Middle East...