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Charles ("Lucky") Luciano, supergangster and onetime vice lord of Manhattan, has been trying hard to look calm, quiet and respectable in Italy, but he makes no secret of his yearning for New York. "I'm a city boy," Lucky once said to a reporter. "Italy's dead-nice, but dead. I like movement. Business opportunities here are no good. All small-time stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: City Boy | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

...year-old mistress, Igea Lissoni, a former dancer and nightclub worker. Igea attributes her good fortune to the prophecy of a Milan fortuneteller, who two years ago told her she would meet the man of her dreams in Capri. Igea hastened forthwith to Capri, and there met Lucky Luciano, whose vast suite took up half of a floor in the island's best hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: City Boy | 7/25/1949 | See Source »

Deported from the U.S. in 1946 and from Cuba in 1947, onetime Vice Racketeer Charles ("Lucky") Luciano glumly faced possible deportation from Rome to his native Sicily. Italian police suspected that he was mixed up in dope smuggling. Protested his girl friend, from Luciano's Rome penthouse: "It's like Charley always said, just persecution, that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: All in Good Time | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

From the moment the camera turns on him as he sits smoking a cigar in the bathtub to his final writhings on the floor of the boat, Edward G. Robinson could be Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, Dutch Schultz. At all times there is the loaded revolver, the two inch cigar, and "yah." Combining these devices with an excellent sneer, and some well handled lines, Robinson turns in his best acting job to date...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Key Largo | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

...Lucky Luciano, deported super-pimp of Manhattan, was having cop trouble again. Palermo (Sicily) police picked him up and quizzed him for three days about his Maffia connections. Then they let him go again till next time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jun. 7, 1948 | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

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