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Recently the radical press of the nation learned about the deaths at Gauley Bridge, began to rattle the skeleton of what it claimed was a hideous industrial scandal (TIME: Jan. 6). One who heard the clatter was young Representative Vito Marcantonio of Manhattan, who has a sharp ear for the kind of news stories that will help him in his Harlem district. As a friend of the working man he called for a Congressional investigation and witnesses. Quickly formed in Manhattan was a National Gauley Bridge Committee to which such notables as Professor Haven Emerson of Columbia University, Socialist Norman...
...vulgar and apologetic musical review called Smile at Me (sketches by Edward J. Lambert, music by Gerald Dolin and Lambert: produced by Harold K. Berg). Strewn through an evening of unqualified shoddy were a few good vaudeville turns: singing by light tan Avis Andrews; a sadistic Death dance by Vito and Piri; a sadistic Hawaiian dance by Paul and Poppy Mears...
Perhaps most vigorous of all the House's youngsters is swarthy, little Vito Marcantonio, onetime law associate of Fiorello LaGuardia, who now represents that part of Manhattan which the present Mayor of New York City used to speak...
...Brooklyn garage Angelina di Gangi, 15, scolded Vito Marano for flirting. Young Vito cuffed his love, and she fled home. Hour later Vito, repentant, sidled into the dark hall of her house, a peace-offering of fine yellow daffodils in his hand. A gun spat a bullet. Young Vito turned slowly in surprise, walked a block before he showed his wound to a policeman. At the other end of the block Angelina's hysterical scream attracted the policeman. Hugged to her breast was a bunch of fine yellow daffodils, flecked with young Vito's blood...
...their children: 1) Mrs. Lawrence Damore, 26, mother of five; 2) Mrs. Lucille Quarante, 25, mother of three; 3) Mrs. Margaret Palella, 24, mother of three; 4) Mrs. Angeline Dell, 22; 5) Mrs. Dominic Damore, 21; 6) Sarah, 21, twin of No. 5; 7) Isabel, 19; 8) Vito, 17; 9) Michael, 16; 10) Rocco, 16, twin of No. 9; 11) Joseph 15; 12) Frank, 12; 13) Mary, 11; 14) Nicholas, 10; 15) John, 8; 16) Philip, 6; 17) Nancy, 5; 18) Rose, 2; 19) Benito Guy, 11 mo. On the way is a 20th child who, if a boy, will...