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...grim police sergeant, four detectives from the bomb squad, ten patrolmen swinging their shiny clubs, and a score of agitated friends met him in Manhattan. They escorted him through the Grand Central Terminal to his limousine, where a motorcycle corps took up the task of guarding his throat. Santa Lucia! If the Camorra wanted a man, they usually got him. And was Gigli, "the World's Greatest Tenor," to be sacrificed to the knife of some berserk Black Hander? So ran the talk in Gigli's apartment, where he was reunited to his wife and children...
Although several of the larger groups lost rooms because of failure to list sufficient choices which remained after the first dormitories had been assigned, nevertheless no applications were thrown out because of irregularity in form. There were two cases of duplication of fictitious name. "The Sextet from Lucia" which applied originally as a group of six won its rooms in Thayer, while the group of six with the same name which applied in its outside envelope as part of a group of 18 was unsuccessful. The group of two which applied as "O, Henry" was awarded its selected room...
Thayer Hall--1 to 3, 12 to 16, 18 The Maid's Tragedy; 4, Ezra P. Dillworthy; 5, 6, 8, The Sextet from Lucia (applied as group of six); 9, Pour lo Sport; 10, 11, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John; 17, The Divine Duo; 19, The Poor Nuts; 20, K. K. Rockne; 21, Anthony and Cleopatra; 22, Mama's Boys; 23 to 26, Piper Heidsick; 27, 28, 31 to 34, The Ups and Downers; 29, Great Scot; 35, 37, M. T. Hope; 36; Betty Bronson; 38, G. Silver; 39, The Would-Be-Goods; 40, Joseph Ward; 41 Hal Winston...
...following groups failed to receive rooms in the draw: Passionate Shepherds, Dinosaur's Dozen, The Anti-Disestablishment Society, Young Woodley, John J. James, Sextet of Lucia (group of six enclosed in an application of 18), Six Mosquitoes, Aristotle, The Green Fan, Erasmus Scroggs, Browning J. A. V., Lionel Lee, Yan, Albert Seewald, George O. N., Jonson and Boswell, The Nobles, Me, Alfred A. Lunt, John M. Hanoe, Osiris, Wireless Willy, The Skipper, Mayfair, O. Henry (single applicant), Bel Enfant, Alfred Augustus Baker, Los Vaqueros, Watt Hour Meter, Caesar, John X. Stevenson, Jaina Square, Mr. Micawber, The Triple Threat, Charles Hawkins...
...named Giulio Nardella and asked him to sing. This Nardella had been a silk-weaver in a New Jersey factory. He sang as he worked. He sang as he walked home. People praised the beauty of his voice and Caruso sent him to study with de Lucia of Naples. That day he sang by the great tenor's bedside the last song Caruso heard. Last week he returned to the U. S. He will sing this winter in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago...