Word: musolino
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...fortune before or since have become so legendary in so short a time. Producing romantic bandit heroes sometimes seems to be a major industry in Sicily, Sardinia and southern Italy. But bandits, though they make news nearly every week, aren't what they used to be-and Musolino's reputation survives in ballads still sung. A young woodcutter of Aspromonte, a craggy region near the toe of the Italian boot, Musolino, like Robin Hood, turned outlaw first (so it was said) when he was falsely accused of attempted murder. Two years later, he escaped from jail...
Revolt. In Rochester, N. Y., Anthony J. Musolino asked to have his name changed to Anthony J. Mason. Said he: "It was sort of funny at first...