Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Family & Early Years: Born in East Dover, Vt., descended through his father (a grocery owner) from the Adamses of Quincy, Sherman went through the grades and high school in Providence, R.I., graduated from Dartmouth in 1920, after an interruption (in 1918) for a stretch in the Marine Corps...
Behind Luchese, however, lay an eventful career. His acquaintances included Costello, ex-Vice Lord Charles ("Lucky") Luciano (see INTERNATIONAL), and a host of real, gun-toting hoods, among them "Trigger Mike" Coppola, Joe Stracci alias Joe Stretch, and Costello's man Friday, "Big Jim" O'Connell. Luchese was convicted of possession of a stolen automobile in 1922, but he managed to beat two arrests for murder, one for vagrancy and one for receiving stolen goods. It was while being fingerprinted during one of these brushes with the law that he got his alias. As a young man, Luchese...
Alfred L. Toplitz, onetime chief clerk of the New York City Board of Elections, admitted that he knew Luchese and was also acquainted with Costello, Coppola and "Little Augie" Pisano, but "never socialized with them." Asked how a $7,500 salary could stretch to cover his expensive tastes (one pair of blue suede oxfords cost him $100), Toplitz dabbed nervously at his palms with a paper handkerchief and replied that he occasionally won some money on the horses...
...than impressive. To date, it has delivered only eleven C-119s, and all of them have been assembled by K-F from parts supplied by Fairchild. Not until K-F has delivered another 30 planes will it be making C-119s entirely from its own parts. When the arms stretch-out was ordered last year 41 planes were lopped off K-F's contract and switched to Fairchild's order books In short, it looked last week as if Fairchild could have handled the entire C-119 order with ease and at much lower cost. Fairchild may well...
...course of his coaching career, he has moved from Pitt to Florida to Temple, and back to Pitt. The second stretch with the Panthers terminated in 1950 when Lloyd Jordan, newly-appointed here, asked Williams to come to Cambridge...