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...Punch in the Nose. It was at Mme. Lebrun's in 1949 that Claire, a lanky, plain girl of 18, met Father Luciano Negrini, an English-speaking Italian priest, 41 years old. A veteran of 15 years as a missionary in China, Father Negrini had been sent by his bishop to the U.S. to win friends and funds for the mission in Hupeh. He won so close a friend in Claire that last September U.S. ecclesiastical authorities sent him back to Italy under charges of "bad conduct...
Carrying the Weight. Last week she was out again and back in Negrini's room with the aunts and the cats. She had a psychiatrist's bill of health and a new soggiorno. "Luciano and I will now get married as soon as possible," Claire exulted. But until the U.S. consulate issues her a statement that she is free to marry, Italian law forbids her to marry an Italian...
Rome cops, investigating an international narcotics ring, were unable to prove that Charles ("Lucky") Luciano had anything to do with it, but they turned up some reasons to believe that he had smuggled in $57,000 in cash and an automobile from the U.S. If they could prove it, he would have to pay a $300,000 fine, or go to jail...
Dewey will have to resign, if he wants to make good his threat. He put Lucky Luciano in jail and then let him out again; he can hardly claim that he is not familiar with Luciano. He accepted money for his presidential campaign from the same John Crane whose contributions to Mayor O'Dwyer will be the object of criminal investigation. As Frank Costello put it, you are bound to rub elbows with all kinds of people in New York...
Chasing Crapshooters. There were others besides Lucky Luciano who had always thought Estes Kefauver's investigation was a crock of baloney. Fellow Democrats had viewed with some skepticism the first moves of the earnest, energetic do-gooding Senator from Tennessee. No trained investigator, he is a 47-year-old lawyer (Yale '27), a liberal Southerner who opposed filibusters on principle and advocated Atlantic Union, an industrious student who has written a book on modernizing Congress, a reformer whose chief accomplishment as a politician was his defeat of Memphis' Boss Ed Crump in getting himself elected...