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...business world. Indeed, TIME defines the business realm broadly, including anyone who works for a living, and our list extends to the world of sports and the National Football League's Pete Rozelle, organized labor and the United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther, and even organized crime's Lucky Luciano, whose syndicate was certainly better managed than was Al Capone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Wheels Turning | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...born and died in Italy, yet the influence on America of a grubby street urchin named Salvatore Lucania ranged from the lights of Broadway to every level of law enforcement, from national politics to the world economy. First, he reinvented himself as Charles ("Lucky") Luciano. Then he reinvented the Mafia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LUCKY LUCIANO: Criminal Mastermind | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

...pick and a dark vision of Big Business. He was nine when the family immigrated from Sicily, where his father had labored in the sulphur pits, to New York City. He took to the streets early, was busted almost at once for shoplifting, later for delivering drugs. Luciano was a tough teenage hoodlum on the Lower East Side when his gang targeted a skinny Jewish kid whose bold defiance won their respect. The encounter led to a merger of Jewish and Italian gangs and a lifelong friendship. When Luciano rebuilt the mob, Meyer Lansky was the architect. A ruthless natural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LUCKY LUCIANO: Criminal Mastermind | 12/7/1998 | See Source »

Choral concerts are planned for every evening, with organizers hoping to sign up the incomparable Three Tenors--Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti--for a New Year's Eve Concert of Hope in Manger Square...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where Will You Be...December 31, 1999? | 10/5/1998 | See Source »

During his audition, Ilagan was asked to nickname Luciano Pavarotti, who had just sung a concert with the Spice Girls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Senior Appears on New Game Show | 9/14/1998 | See Source »

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