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...have been imported from a Catskills road company of Fiddler on the Roof. His gestures might have been modelled on Menasha Skulnik's, his lines threaten to slip into Yiddish, and the "nu's" and the "oy's" and the Diaspora world-weariness almost crown Beckett the prince of pushcart playwrights...
Tough Fellow. Challenges have never been unwelcome or unfamiliar to Goldstein. The son of a Ukrainian immigrant who sold fruits and vegetables from a pushcart on New York's Lower East Side, Goldstein spoke only Yiddish at home since his parents could not speak English. He mastered English so well, however, that he earned high marks at C.C.N.Y. and later at Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the law journal. After graduation, he served in the Army as a demolitions specialist and counterintelligence agent in Europe. Goldstein later clerked for U.S. Circuit Judge David Bazelon, then...
...possible exception of Charles ("Lucky") Luciano. The Cosa Nostra now operates through 25 to 30 "families," totaling about 5,000 members. Five families and about one-third of the total troops are based in New York City, where Valachi grew up as the son of a hard-drinking pushcart peddler in East Harlem...
Carr's father, an immigrant from Rumania, used to hawk vegetables from a pushcart in Manhattan. Young Fred had grander ideas. He began hanging around brokerage board rooms when he was 14. Every dollar he made while in high school-some $500-he invested and promptly lost, but his infatuation with the stock market continued. A junior-year dropout from California State College, he amassed $10,000 in such small business ventures as building concrete aprons for driveways and operating a gas station, before going to work for Bache & Co. as an assistant broker at $217 a month...
...plenty to tell. The son of a Greek immigrant, he decided early to go for easy money rather than the legitimate proceeds of the small restaurant chain his father had built up from a pushcart. He began by swiping a briar pipe and a pair of sunglasses from a parked car, eventually worked his way up to an armed stickup. Caught and locked up, he proceeded to pry a board out of a fence around Mattapan State Hospital, where he was under observation, and began an ancillary career: jail breaking. When the police got him back, they kept...