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...wines will increase rapidly because the French will be unable to produce enough to satisfy America's growing thirst for good but moderately priced wine. The domestic market will soon be big enough to support another major national brand, he says, and a hustling entrepreneur could become a kingpin in American wines. That is exactly what Doyle Mize would like...
...suffered his fatal coronary, he and Gosch were discussing a movie of the mobster's life-a movie that Gosch agreed would not be made for ten years. Now the ten years are up and Gosch plans to start shooting next year. "This man was No. 1, the kingpin, probably one of the most complex personalities that ever lived," he says. "He designed the rackets. He put together a modus operand! that would have stood the president of General Motors in good stead. But he had no interest in legitimate business...
Died. Joe Adonis, 69, the onetime East Coast gambling czar, described by the late crime-fighting Senator Estes Kefauver as "the most sinister of all U.S. underground figures"; of heart disease; in Ancona, Italy. Born Giuseppe Doto, "Joe A." became a Brooklyn rumrunner and a kingpin of "Murder Inc.," later bankrolled casinos from Maine to Miami, dabbled in legitimate business. A suave figure partial to conservative suits, Adonis once derided less successful gangsters as "crazy hicks. That fellow Dillinger-why, he had about a quarter in his pocket when he got knocked off." When the Kefauver subcommittee cracked down...
...entirely unacceptable to even pass through New Haven on the way to New York and points south were there, and they were thoroughly enjoying themselves. Important men, too. Men like mayor Al Vellucci and thirty-five of his traveling cronies, ABC football commentator John Yovicsin, and newborn political kingpin Larry S. DiCara...
Interestingly enough, most of the famous names of '21 are in one field: journalism. John Cowles, king of the publishing family that recently gutted one of America's best magazines ( Harper's ), is in the class. So is Roy Larsen, Time-Life kingpin, who, in his autobiographical note in the class's reunion report, offers to send classmates copies of the recent Time Inc., The Intimate History of a Publishing Empire "with [his] compliments." And there is also none other than Lawrence Spivak, the tough-minded moderator of the long-run Meet the Press...