Word: fresno
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Contino likes to tell how his father came to the U.S. from Sicily and set up as a butcher in Fresno. (At this point, he usually produces papa, and papa sings in Italian.) His mother's brother, christened Raffaele Giordano but better known as Young Corbett III, onetime world welterweight champ (1933), thought young Dick would make a good fighter; he has big hands. But from twelve on, Dick has wanted to sing and play the accordion...
MARK HANNA Fresno, Calif...
...much of his clothing, he paid twice-once in high prices over the counter, again in taxes to finance the farm-support program to keep the price up. From his taxes came the money for such subsidy payments as the $3,759,000 paid to Russell Giffen of Fresno, Calif, for his 1948 grain, cotton and flax; $426,000 to the Reeds of Fort Fairfield, Me., and $216,000 to Rudolph Blier of Van Buren, Me. for his 1948 potatoes...
ROBERT J. TUCKER Fresno, Calif...