Word: finger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stolen automobile in 1922, but he managed to beat two arrests for murder, one for vagrancy and one for receiving stolen goods. It was while being fingerprinted during one of these brushes with the law that he got his alias. As a young man, Luchese had lost the index finger on his right hand in an accident. Noticing this, a detective suddenly remembered the Chicago Cubs' famed three-fingered pitcher, Mordecai Brown, and pinned on the new name: "Look who's in now-Three-Finger Brown...
Though he had attended the opening sessions as a spectator, Luchese did not show up the second day. As a substitute for Three-Finger himself, however, commission attorneys read portions of 600 pages of testimony which Luchese had given them in private hearings. He dodged direct answers to most questions. To a question on his financial affairs, Luchese would give no answer at all. "Your grounds of not answering is that it will incriminate you?" he was asked. "I wouldn't say that," replied Luchese, "because I don't like to use that expression...
Loeillet's Sonata in C major featured Alfred Mann's flawless playing of the recorder. But the biggest applause-getter of the evening was the Sonata for 'cello and harpsichord by Francoeur. The piece is full of piquant melodies, and despite the intricate finger work, Mayes handles his unwieldly instruments as if it were the size of a small banjo...
...July, he was granted a rare privilege: a personal interview with Stalin. Back home, Nenni became the first salesman to peddle the Kremlin's bright new line of peace goods. He offered it first to shrewd, 71-year-old Premier Alcide de Gasperi. When DeGasperi refused even to finger the wares from Moscow, Nenni last week took them to the floor of Italy's Chamber of Deputies...
Executive Editor James S. Pope of the pro-Stevenson Louisville Courier-Journal put his finger on the chief source of the complaints. Said he: "Readers cannot judge the objectivity of a newspaper in a presidential campaign for the simple reason that they cannot read objectively. Most of them do not want objectivity-they want their side favored...