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...bite much in winter but I had come at the luckiest time, early evening, and informs me I’m entitled to keep anything I catch. I ask if he’s got an extra pole. “You ever done one of vese fings before?” he says, handing it to me. “Fishing?” I say, “Yeah, sure,” only sort of lying...

Author: By David B. Rochelson, | Title: Roughing It (Sort Of) | 7/30/2004 | See Source »

Genovese reappeared as an interpreter in the offices of the Allied Military Command in Italy. He soon became the head of a huge smuggling ring dealing in goods stolen from the U.S. Army. The Army arrested Geno vese in 1944, and he was forcibly returned to the U.S. By then the witnesses to the outstanding murder charge against him had disappeared and he was able to assume control of the Luciano crime family. In 1959 he was sentenced to 15 years on a narcotics charge and died in prison a decade later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blood, Business, Honor | 10/15/1984 | See Source »

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