Word: marzullo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Vito Marzullo had the shock of his life last week. The former alderman, 91, awoke one morning to find his own obituary on the front page of the Chicago Tribune. There was consolation in the encomiums by fellow pols, who hailed Marzullo as the "dean" of Windy City politics. The embarrassed Tribune, still renowned for its DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN headline in 1948, launched an investigation of the gaffe. It turned out that Marzullo's brother-in-law, who lived in the same building, had passed away...
...gone too," she sighed, as she returned yet another packet of mail to her pouch. An engineer who came back to sift through the ashes of his home found his Thanksgiving turkey, frozen before the fire, charred to a crisp in the freezer. Another victim, Tony Marzullo, attempted to salvage humor from tragedy by spraying a For Sale-Cheap sign on what used to be a freezer and propping it up on what used to be a front lawn. "You have to make a joke about it," he said a bit unconvincingly...