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...soldiers have no dignity and not a shred of redeeming decency. Don Corrado, with his "small, sharp eyes, as merry as ice cubes," is driven like all his men by pure avarice and a brutish lust for power. Prizzi and his top aides-loosely modeled on the late Carlo Gambino and his Mob-have never even "been beyond Brooklyn or Vegas"; they do not read newspapers or go to college. Yet, as Charley proudly observes, the Prizzi family "runs this country just the same as the Senate does or General Motors or Alexander Haig, junior." The Mob is funnier. When...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heel over Head | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

Sinatra has acknowledged acquaintanceships with several gangsters, including the late Lucky Luciano. But the singer denied having willingly posed backstage at the Westchester Premier Theater in Tarrytown, N.Y., in 1976 with several gangsters, including New York Mafia Boss Carlo Gambino. Explained Sinatra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Just Hope | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

...came in and took a picture of me with the little girl [Gambino's granddaughter], and, before I knew what happened, eight or nine men were around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: We Just Hope | 2/23/1981 | See Source »

These guys are not from the Mafia. In fact, they are blacks. The field has been left clear to them by the Gambino family, which controls hijacking in Brooklyn but prefers-at least for now -to concentrate on higher-profit Scotch or cameras or fur coats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Big Steal | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

...affiliation with the city's notoriously corrupt waterfront and his 1957 marriage to the niece of Mobster Albert Anastasia, police considered Scotto to be a criminal. In 1969, the FBI went so far as to identify him as a capodecina, or lieutenant, in the Mafia family of Carlo Gambino, an allegation that the union leader vehemently denied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Scotto: Out of the Dock | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

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