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...entertainment industry, Mob watchers say it is difficult to book an act in Las Vegas or Atlantic City without the Genovese brugad getting its slice. Law-enforcement officials point to superagent Lee Salomon of the William Morris Agency as being linked to a top Genovese captain named James (Jimmy Nap) Napoli. In the late 1960s, at a time when the government was bugging the talent agency's Manhattan office, Salomon was arranging for Napoli's wife Jeanne, an unknown singer, to get star billing for her nightclub...
...Orlando and Jackie Mason. "The stars are victims more than co-conspirators," maintains a Mafia investigator. "In order to work, they have to cooperate." Salomon vehemently denies any Mob ties. Says he: "I'm the cleanest, purest person you'll ever meet in your life." Salomon admits knowing "Jimmy Nap" but wonders, "Doesn't everybody...
...Take a nap every afternoon...
...every hand he has played. Now he's gone. Dewey Tomko, who came in second here a few years ago, used to be a kindergarten teacher for migrant workers' children in Florida. He would stay up all night playing poker, he admits shyly, and when his class took its nap, he would take one too, on his very own mat, sometimes waking up long after the mammas had collected the kids. Tomko quit teaching and became a world-class poker player. But now all he can think of is getting back to Florida to play baseball with his three sons...
...night of Dec. 14, 1989, Andrei Sakharov returned to his Moscow apartment from a heated meeting of radical parliamentarians where he had called for the formation of an alternative party to oppose the Communists, lay down for a nap and never awoke. He was 68 when a heart attack felled him. He had been a free man for less than three years...