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...Manno: "We're not going to come from Chicago down here...
...Texas Trail. The Chicago syndicate's interests are not confined to horse racing. A hood named Pat Manno, who is vice president of a Chicago auto-sales company, in his spare time, is Accardo's specialist on policy. Manno also travels for the syndicate. The committee confronted him with a wire recording of a conversation he had been trapped into by Dallas' Sheriff Steve Guthrie in 1946. Manno had gone to Texas to see Guthrie, then sheriff-elect, about a "program of horse-booking, slot machines, dice, numbers, everything...
...Manno: "Something I'm against, that's dope peddlers, pickpockets, hired killers. That's one thing I can't stomach, and that's one thing the fellows up there-the group-won't stand for, things like that. They discourage...
...Manno Wolf-Ferrari usually conducts at Venice's La Fernice opera house. In Paris, three French conductors joined the pit orchestra, just to get the hang of Italian opera from "Little Manno." If they learned nothing from his fine, sure beat, they learned something about making do in an emergency. On opening night Manno dropped his baton into a crack in the floor just as the curtain was going up and couldn't fish it out. He sent a violinist for something to replace it, conducted part of the first act with the rung of a chair. Said...
Pleased by his Paris success, Manno is even more excited by the treat he has in store for his 71-year-old uncle, with whom he lives in Venice. In Naples next fall, Manno hopes to conduct the first Italian performance in more than 20 years of Uncle Ermanno's The Jewels of the Madonna. Mussolini had banned it because, he said, its story of Neopolitan hoodlumism gave Italy a bad name...