Word: sicilians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When, in 1928, the meteoric career of Joe Strong, the Boy Plunger, ended abruptly with the latter's disappearance from Wall Street, few knew that Perelman had ended another chapter. In bloody Cicero, Illinois, swart Sicilian mobsters fingered their roscoes uneasily, dismayed at lightning forays by a new rival. In a scant eight months, no shell of needled beer touched lip in Chicago County without previous tribute to 'Nails' Perelman. Implacable, deadly as a puff adder, the hand that triggered a steely automatic could caress a first Folio with equal relish. Able to snatch in fifteen minutes...
Mount Allegro is the modest, unassuming, sensitive record of a young U.S. writer of Sicilian descent. It is no towering peak in U.S. letters, but readers who make the climb can get a clear view of a relatively unexplored part of the native scene- America's "Little Italys" and the people who live in them...
...Author. Rochester-born Jerre Mangione, 33, looks Sicilian enough to have posed for one of the statues in a Palermo piazza. Now special assistant to the U.S. Commissioner of Immigration, his first writing job was ghosting love letters for his Mount Allegro relatives in love with women who could not read Italian. Says he of his early reading: "I got most of it done in the seclusion of bathrooms and under beds because my relatives believed too much reading was bound to drive a person insane." He, working his way through Syracuse University, graduated in 1931, went on to magazine...
LONDON--Britain's Eighth Army rolled triumphantly toward Tripoli and a merger of the African fronts tonight while the Axis-held Sicilian Narrows area rocked under widespread new Allied air blows featuring 24 hours of uninterrupted raids by planes based on Malts...
While U. S. Flying Fortresses alone smashed 44 enemy aircraft on the Axis airdrome at Castel Benito near Tripoli, planes of the Middle East Command hammered Tripoli itself, the nearby port of Homs, Crete, Sicily and Lampedusa island in the Sicilian straits...