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...extend my deepest sympathy to Joe Colombo [July 12] not only for suffering at the hands of senseless violence, but also for failing to rally enough support to get the editors of newsmagazines to observe the "law of omertà" namely silencing their writers' biased attacks on the Italian-American community. Joe Colombo will long be remembered as a champion of freedom for millions of Italian Americans. He will not be remembered as a "progenitor of the Mafia...
...needs repair. It functions at all altitudes and particularly well at sea level, where sand, salt air and suntan lotions have no adverse effects on its performance. These two suitable-for-summer novels are brisk, undemanding and unoffensive, except possibly to cautious Washington bureaucrats, Chinese Communists, members of the Italian-American Civil Rights League or Hungarians overly sensitive to the revolving-door joke (they go in behind you, but come out in front...
Mafia Leader Joseph Colombo Sr., shot during an Italian-American Unity Day rally in Manhattan (TIME, July 12), clung to life through a third week. Meanwhile, the investigation into the attempted murder continues. No one apparently saw, or is willing to admit he saw, the gunman who killed the would-be assassin, Jerome Johnson, with three shots, even as police swarmed around him. Significantly, however, many did see what Colombo's bodyguards were doing in the seconds immediately prior to and after their boss was shot...
...COLOMBO'S civic career is a recent development. Until he organized the Italian-American Civil Rights League, he was a much more private person, intent on following his father's profession. Anthony Colombo was a successful Brooklyn mobster until he was garroted one night in 1938 in the back seat of his car along with his girl friend. The killing forced young Joe to quit high school and go to work in a printing plant to support his mother and younger sister. He enlisted in the Coast Guard in World War II, but he got into so much trouble that...
When U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell stepped up the war on organized crime, Colombo lost his cool. He became angered when the FBI trailed him, questioned his friends and family and arrested Joseph Jr. (he was later acquitted). In that anger the Italian-American Civil Rights League was born...