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...start off, the flap with former Police Commissioner Sanford H. Gorodetsky erupted Sandy, ironically, was both the city's Top Cop and major target in a probe by the police over corruption in City Hall Sandy doesn't like the Police Chief. Anthony J. Mancuso and so he fired him minutes after Cianci said he would resign...

Author: By Peter J. Howe, | Title: Big Mess in a Little State | 5/1/1984 | See Source »

Back when Kuhn began his watch, someone quizzed him: "Quick, name two catchers on the St. Louis Browns in the early '40s." Without a blink, Kuhn replied, "Swift and Mancuso." But Ueberroth required a moment to think before mentioning Cincinnati Pitcher Ewell Blackwell among his favorite old players...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Commissioner on Deck | 3/12/1984 | See Source »

...calls is the bane of policemen everywhere. "We end it for an hour or two and do a lot of paper work," says Officer Lawrence Santos of Harlem's 25th Precinct. To a frightened woman, though, even a reluctant policeman offers more hope than an insensitive one. Sergeant Louis Mancuso of Manhattan's Ninth Precinct, for example, does not think arrests are always the best solution. He believes there are often extenuating circumstances, observing after hearing about one brutal assault, "Maybe she wasn't giving him what he needed sexually." Detroit Executive Deputy Police Chief James Bannon explains such lingering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wife Beating: The Silent Crime | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

Here is a rarity: a muckraking movie that was not made for TV. The subject of this Canadian melodrama is a religious cult like the Moonies, and Director R.L. Thomas' tone is about as judicious as Friz Freleng's. David (Nick Mancuso), depressed over a short-circuited affair, falls in with some "Heavenly Children" who presoak his brain with homilies and then scrub it clean of all hope, feeling, self. Although it has plenty of impact, Ticket is often too busy being outraged to bother with niceties of characterization and plot. (Just how does David become converted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Rushes: Dec. 14, 1981 | 12/14/1981 | See Source »

...young black who has to take a low-paying job at a Bourbon Street strip joint or be arrested for vagrancy. As a sidewalk shill for the acts inside, Jones seeks his revenge: "Night of Joy got genuine color peoples workin below the minimal wage." Then there is Patrolman Mancuso, who has been ordered by his chief to bring in at least one suspicious character. Donning the odd costumes he is forced to wear for the purpose of enticement, Mancuso constantly goes out and gets himself arrested. Much of the comedy in the novel is of the atom-smashing variety...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rumblings | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

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