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...Mozart's comic opera, Cosi fan tutte (last Met performance: 1928), will be redone from scratch-also in English-with new sets by Rolf (Don Carlo, Fledermaus) Gerard. Stage director: Broadway star Alfred Lunt...
...Dwyer once described the Anastasia case as "the perfect murder case." They failed to corral Gambler Frank Erickson (who preferred to stay in his Rikers Island cell, where he is serving a two-year rap for bookmaking). But the committee pulled in Underworld Big Shot Meyer Lansky, Gamblers Gerard Catena and James ("Niggy") Rutkin, who entered the hearings protesting: "I'm small peanuts. Why don't these Hollywood investigators retire and get J. Edgar Hoover up here? He'll tell them all they want to know in two days." The committee also called...
...corporation's favored sons, a man marked for tempering and testing under the hard eye of G.E.'s stern President Gerard Swope himself. A year later Bill Ruete died. Just before he passed away, he said: "You know, Charlie, that stickpin of mine has been the secret of your success. You worked your head off for it. So here it is." Charlie locked the pin up in a box and, with a characteristic gesture, added a provision to his will, directing that the pin go to Bill Ruete'c grandnephew...
Quick Change. Gerard Swope had centralized G.E. manufacturing. Charlie Wilson, certain that times were changing, set out to decentralize G.E.'s authority-and to make the planning, manufacture and sales of every product an integrated operation. World War II suddenly switched him from this huge job to a huger one-making G.E. into a war industry. And in the middle of that, Franklin Roosevelt asked him to come to Washington to work the bugs...
...years in the New York fire department, Gerard W. Purcell spent as little time as possible climbing ladders and sliding down brass poles. By becoming financial secretary of the Uniformed Firemen's Association-the A.F.L. union which represents smoke eaters below the rank of lieutenant-he avoided duty, drew an extra $100 a month, and got the use of a shiny red automobile and a chauffeur. He also assumed the job of promoting the annual Firemen's Ball...