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...royal aloofness. Mindful of perennial rumors that his engagement will be announced momentarily, the prince slyly eyed a school friend and asked: "Don't you think it's a bit too early for me to be tied down with a wife?" Onetime U.S. Vice Viceroy Charles ("Lucky") Luciano went to Rome to plead with bureaucrats for a cancellation of the curfew order that keeps him holed up in his Naples apartment from dusk to dawn (TIME, Nov. 29). After cooling his heels in a hall for five hours, Lucky had a ten-minute audience with Interior Ministry officials...
...Naples, a six-man commission of solid citizens and cops grilled onetime U.S. Vice Czar Charles ("Lucky") Luciano, 57, deported from the U.S. in 1946. After keeping him squirming on the hot seat for half an hour, the six unanimously decided that Lucky is "socially dangerous because of well-founded suspicions that he lives on crime and by crime." Just to help him be a good boy, the commission prescribed a virtuous regimen for Luciano, ruled that for the next two years he must 1) stay home between dusk and dawn, 2) roam no farther than Naples' near suburbs...
...Italian language, a discreet narrator explains each scene before it starts. Aida (Sophia Loren) is a slant-eyed, dusky-skinned, full-lipped Ethiopian slave girl in the Egyptian court. She and the stone-faced princess (Lois Maxwell) are in love with a weak-mouthed warrior named Radames (Luciano della Marra). Radames is sent off to trounce the Ethiopians and is rewarded, all against his will, with the hand of the princess. Torn between love and guilt, he slips Aida a top-secret battle plan. He is nabbed and both are left to die in the well-lit dungeons beneath...
...story didn't stop with De Koning. Newsday told how the Roosevelt owners, led by Racketeer Lucky Luciano's onetime lawyer, George Morton Levy, got control of the Yonkers track. In a byline copyright interview with Hathway, Lawyer Levy admitted his group had lobbied a law through the New York State legislature that prevented the Yonkers track from getting a harness-racing franchise, thus forcing it to sell control at a low price (estimated at $2,000,000) to the Roosevelt group. Among the Roosevelt-Yonkers owners: Nassau County Republican Boss J. Russel Sprague (who paid only...
Behind Luchese, however, lay an eventful career. His acquaintances included Costello, ex-Vice Lord Charles ("Lucky") Luciano (see INTERNATIONAL), and a host of real, gun-toting hoods, among them "Trigger Mike" Coppola, Joe Stracci alias Joe Stretch, and Costello's man Friday, "Big Jim" O'Connell. Luchese was convicted of possession of a stolen automobile in 1922, but he managed to beat two arrests for murder, one for vagrancy and one for receiving stolen goods. It was while being fingerprinted during one of these brushes with the law that he got his alias. As a young man, Luchese...