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...fantasies. Parker Brothers' Monopoly, for example, was introduced in 1935 as a Depression daydream of striking it rich with hotels on Boardwalk and Park Place. The coming election year has prompted several pick-the-President exercises (TIME, Nov. 8). It is difficult to predict what sociologists, or the Italian-American Civil Rights League, may make of a game called The Godfather -"for All the Families...
White won nine wards as compared with only one ward in 1967. He did surprisingly well in Italian-American East Boston and also in Roxbury where--despite the campaign of Black Councilman Atkins--he captured 40 per cent of the black vote. The elderly, who constitute 25 per cent of the Boston electorate, also supported him heavily...
White won nine wards as compared with only one ward in 1967. He did surprisingly well in Italian-American East Boston and also in Roxbury where--despite the campaign of Black Councilman Atkins--he captured 40 per cent of the black vote. The elderly, who constitute 25 per cent of the Boston electorate, also supported him heavily...
White won nine wards as compared with only one ward in 1967. He did surprisingly well in Italian-American East Boston and also in Roxbury where--despite the campaign of Black Councilman Atkins--he captured 40 per cent of the black vote. The elderly, who constitute 25 per cent of the Boston electorate, also supported him heavily...
...accompaniments nearly drive his tin ears crazy. Prohibition bootlegging eventually accounts for his real power and fortune. While it must be said that Oliver is not Italian, his partners are called Manzini and Lamotta, and he marries into a thriving Sicilian clan. Gradually, all the standard gangland props are assembled: henchmen, reprisals, shootouts at the warehouse, payoffs and protection rackets. The author even seems to have anticipated the recent caveats of the Italian-American Civil Rights League: the world Mafia is missing. Indeed, when his wife dies, leaving only two daughters, Oliver "adopts" a handsome young Cajun named Robert Caillet...