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...first of three European speakers discussing "The Literary Interlude," Luciano Codignola, director of Cultural Affairs for the Olivetti Co., described Italy as "the first country to think of itself in terms of decadence...
After years of bleating that he was only an honest businessman, deported Manhattan Vice Czar Charles ("Lucky") Luciano, 60, convinced a Naples court commission that he is not really "socially dangerous" at all. Rejecting police arguments for closer surveillance of high-living Businessman Luciano, the commission found him "a free citizen who . . . conducts a perfectly regular life which gives no grounds for censure...
Shame on Reader Pat Brennan [Feb. 17] for comparing the accomplishments of Spellman, Sheen and Gushing with those of Dio, Anastasia and Luciano. However, may I point out to Pat that in both fields he mentioned-the Catholic Church and the underworld-Italians...
Reader Trozzolo must consider, I have to assume, that a man who devotes his life to the spiritual guidance of his fellow men (Spellman, Sheen, Gushing) lacks the perseverance of such reality facers as Messrs. Dio, Anastasia, Luciano...
...trial, his pals killed off so many witnesses that Al was released. After that he prospered; the waterfront offered, as it still does, wonderful opportunities in pilferage, shakedowns, strikebreaking and extortion. He met a lot of other rising young men: Al Capone, Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter, Lucky Luciano. He was often arrested (murder, 1928; murder, 1932; murder, 1933), but never convicted. A stool pigeon named John Bazzano, who took an interest in him in 1932, was found cut into stew meat in a burlap...