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Lawrence ("Dago") Mangano did business in Chicago for more than 20 years. Like many another poor youth he began modestly, as a pimp, burglar and small-time gambler. But Dago Mangano had brains and a pleasant, breezy personality. He soon became known as a man of executive ability. When Al Capone ran Chicago's Syndicate, Mangano was a trusted lieutenant. After Capone there was much unrest. The late Frank (The Enforcer) Nitti, Jack Guzik (TIME, May 1) and the incumbent Tony Accardo, successively became Syndicate chieftains...
Smart Operator. Proprietor Billy Wilkerson is a suave, natty Tennesseean with drooping lips and a dark mustache. At 49, he is still as toughly handsome as a Central Casting Corporation gambler. On the Hollywood scale of business he is a midget; yet even in that hyperbolic community, he is regarded with respect. He is the editor-publisher of the Hollywood Reporter, in whose columns it pays, as all Hollywood is aware, to advertise. He promoted and operated the prodigiously successful Trocadero, a nightspot which took in $3,800,000 in two years and eight months. He is a confessed onetime...
...school, was rejected when his father turned out to be an enemy alien (British). Embittered Peter set himself to learn the tricks of wartime Vienna's black market. By war's end he was leading a flourishing double life-as a respectable clerk in the steelworks anda gambler in foreign-currency exchange. The world, he reflects as the story ends, had challenged him to survive...
...Unteachable Gambler. Then as now, Spaatz was a shy and silent yet strangely gregarious man, who loved to have people around him, and could open up and talk fluently-especially on air power. At games he is an insatiable (and unteachable) gambler, and a hard competitor. He plays...
There was Thomas Neglia, reputed North Side gambling king. He was already in a reclining position, getting a barber shop shave, when hoodlums rubbed him out. John Pisano, a small-time gangster, was shot at the wheel of his car. The gunmen who murdered James D'Angelo, a gambler and saloonkeeper, trussed his limp body up with a clothesline, left it in the trunk of his automobile...