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...Supreme Court handed down a ruling that cleared the way for a new trial for a group of federal prisoners convicted of operating a narcotics ring. The most notable hood in the unwholesome crew is a man generally recognized as the No. 1 overlord of crime in the U.S.-Vito Genovese...
Married. Vic Damone (real name: Vito Farinola), 35, Brooklyn-born crooner; and Judy Rawlins, 27, his secretary; both for the second time; in a Middle Eastern Bahai ceremony in Beverly Hills, followed a few hours later by a civil service in Las Vegas, because, said Damone, though the vows of the quasi-Islamic sect are binding in California, "We wanted to cover ourselves for the rest of the world...
...sidewalks of New York in the '30s. He described the bloody revolution among rival Neapolitan and Sicilian Cosa Nostra families in the New York-New Jersey area that took 60-odd lives with stiletto and chopper, involved intricate double and triple crosses and led to the ascendancy of Vito Genovese as the Mafia's "boss of bosses...
...Valachi's testimony does nothing else, it has already produced a shocking commentary on the underworld jungle in the U.S. prison system. When Joe went to the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary on a narcotics conviction in 1960, the Cosa Nostra "boss of bosses" Vito Genovese, a prisoner, was there too. Valachi said Genovese arranged for them to be cellmates. One night in their cell Genovese said to Valachi...
Later, and on another channel, the presence of another elderly quarter-back inspired the Boston Patriots to a 20-14 win over the previously undefeated Oakland Raiders of the American Football League. Vito (Babe) Parilli, who used to quarterback the Green, Bay Packers in the days when they weren't winning anything, played all the way for Boston...