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...crowd of 300 Manhattan autograph seekers surrounded a crooner named Jack Carroll (né Gaetano Riccio), knocked him down, yanked off his tie and belt, went through his pockets, and then jumped on him until the cops came...
...teammate, Umberto Cerati, 3000-meter start, were the head-line members of the Italian track team that began practice in the Stadium yesterday in preparation for Friday's international meet. Having the two at a disadvantage, the reporters were pumping them via the medium of Peter M. Riccio, a Columbia professor, acting as interpreter. The questions varied from a request to have Beccali name the greatest runner he had ever seen to a demand for Cerati's opinion of Joe McCluskey, the Fordham star, who is Cerati's strongest rival...
...lesser personalities: I may mention as worthy of the visitor's attention two characteristic marbles by Donatello's follower Antonio Rossellino, an idealized St. Sebastian by Civitali, three typical terra-cottas by della Robbia, and, among the North Italians, the sharply outlined profiles of the Storzas by Amadeo, and Riccio's Entombment with the figures clad in classical garments...
...unfair to Prince Liechtenstein of Liechtenstein to call the Dreyfus collection the "greatest private collection in the world," but Duveen Brothers got a good deal for their money. The collection is notably strong in sculpture: Verrocchio, Donatello, Leonardo da Vinci, Mino da Fiesole, Bertoldo di Giovanni, Andrea Riccio. Painters include: Giovanni Bellini, Fra Filippo Lippi, Pesellino, Ghirlandaio. There is also a collection of medals and small bronzes which art critics call irreplaceable...
...Brooklyn, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals demanded the arrest of Louis Riccio, 52, for biting dogs. Mr. Riccio admitted his malefaction. He had bitten the tails off his six puppies to improve them...