Word: vito
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sauce for the Gander. In Chicago, Vito Piovosi, seeking an injunction to keep wife Helen from molesting him, testified that when he cooked a roast loin of pork for Sunday dinner, she: 1) shouted, "What, no applesauce?" 2) threw roast and platter at him, 3) picked up the platter and broke it over his head, knocking him unconscious, 4) poured hot gravy over him as he lay on the floor, 5) stalked out of the house and never returned...
...Died. Vito Marcantonio. 51. six-term Congressman from New York's East Har em; of a heart attack; on a rainy street in Manhattan. Tough, fiery little Vito fought his way up from East Side poverty, hung on to the fluttering coattails of Fiorello La Guardia, succeeded him in Congress in 1934 on a Republican-City Fusion ticket. In his district, Vito was an indefatigable favordoer; in Washington, a slavish follower of the Communist Party line. Finally beaten by a 1950 Democratic-Republican-Liberal coalition, he still remained powerful and popular in his district, drew 20,000 mourners...
...political influence, can solve these problems. They forget, however, that LaGuardia only dented the city's problems and that most of his projects needed financial support from Washington, support the present national administration is in no mood to give. They forget that LaGuardia also had nasty associates, men like Vito Marcantonio. In fact, to say that anyone can operate in the atmosphere of big city politics without some support from bosses is to either be naive or drugged by campaign propaganda. All that can reasonably be asked of a New York mayor, then, is that by training and accomplishment...
...Vito has been asked several times to tour the U.S., once actually signed a contract, but her mother died and she canceled the trip. As a next best thing, RCA Victor plans to release some of her records soon, but De Vito, ever the perfectionist, is underjoyed. "I don't like any of them," she says...
...Italian government also sent one of its prize possessions, the "Tuscan" Stradivarius, which it bought this year for about $50,000 and lent to Violinist de Vito for life...