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Colombo's career as a gangster also could provide a plausible motive?revenge. One product of his years as a member of the assassination team of Joseph Profaci, head of a New York family, is a list of victims' relatives???young men orphaned by contract, brothers bound to avenge a family murder?who would like to see Colombo killed. His rise in the Mob hierarchy has also earned him the bitter enmity of former comrades, notably Joseph ("Crazy Joe") Gallo, onetime Profaci triggerman whom Colombo opposed during a bloody gang war in the early...
LOLLY WILLOWES, OR THE LOVING HUNTSMAN?Sylvia Townsend Warner?Viking Press ($2). Lolly Willowes, a forgotten maiden, was nearly 50 before she understood the impulses long stirring beneath her life-routine among normal, well- to-do British relatives???impulses that had set her to reading in dusty books about werewolves and spells; to searching for potent, hidden herbs on solitary walks; and to quaint medicinal brewings and distillations in private...
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