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...which holds the two syndicates together, the committee suggested, seriously if a little tentatively, is the Mafia. the Sicilian secret society specializing in bootlegging, narcotic smuggling and "Black Hand" extortion. Presiding over both syndicates as an arbitrator by remote control, said the committee, is Mafia Chief Charles ("Lucky"') Luciano in Italy...
...average U.S. citizen, such a conelusion, presented as fact by a congressional committee, was at least sobering. In Italy, where Manhattan's onetime King of Prostitution takes his luxurious ease after his deportation in 1946, a Luciano lieutenant complained: "Any time anything happens anywhere, they turn the heat on us. Sure, Lucky and I played around with bootlegging and the numbers rackets-who didn't? But all that stuff about narcotics and vice rings is just a crock of baloney...
...Bipartisan Policy. When the committee read off a list of hoodlums and racketeers, Willie admitted cheerfully that he knew almost all of them, from Lucky Luciano on back to Al Capone. Asked who had introduced him to Capone, Willie stared in disbelief, said: "Listen, well-charactered people, you don't need introductions; you just meet automatically." Asked what political clubs he belonged to, he answered simply: "I don't belong to any; I am bipartisan...
...White House; he had been too assured, his personality did not charm the voters, and he had tried to win without discussing the issues. But when all of this was said, his had been a remarkable career: a racket-busting prosecutor at 33 who put behind bars "Lucky" Luciano, Irving ("Waxey Gordon") Wexler, Tammany's Jimmy Hines, .Wall Street's Richard Whitney and many a little name in the loan and extortion rackets; at 40, an honest, efficient governor and able politician who had cut taxes, backed a veterans' bonus, rent control, and the nation...
Puccini: Turandot (Gina Cigna, soprano; Armando Giannotti, tenor; Luciano Neroni, basso; Francesco Merli, tenor; Magda Olivero, soprano; Afro Poli, baritone; EIAR Symphony Orchestra and chorus, Franco Ghione conducting; Cetra-Soria, 6 sides LP). Puccini's last, but not best opera gets as good a performance as possible. Recording: good...