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...surfaced is Narcotics Detective Joseph Nunziata, whose signature-probably forged-was on the form with which 24 lbs. were signed out. Nunziata died of gunshot wounds inflicted by his own revolver last March. The death was labeled a suicide, but that verdict was challenged by Nunziata's widow Anna and her attorney, John Meglio, who said: "Joe wasn't the kind of man who would commit suicide." Indeed, mob sources have been saying that Nunziata's death was a "hit," ordered by the Gambinos because they feared the detective might talk about the heroin thefts...
...divided, his first name standing for Dionysius, the creative-erotic life force, and his last name Anthony for "a saint in the desert, exorcising a demon." In plot terms, Anthony goes to work for Brown and loses his creative urge and his life. But to secure Anthony's widow (Catherine Helmond) Brown must don Anthony's mask to appropriate Anthony's passion. Thus a transfer of identities is completed. Finally, each character's mask is a device for social camouflage. Worn, it is protective armor against the hostility and misunderstanding of the world. Dropping it marks...
Died. Frances, Countess Lloyd George, 84, widow of Britain's World War I Prime Minister; in Churt, England. Slim, attractive Frances Stevenson attended the Versailles peace conference as David Lloyd George's secretary. She was also his mistress, as her memoirs revealed, and continued her double role for 30 years until they were married in 1943 (his first wife died in 1941). As his confidante, she exerted considerable influence on the Liberal Party...
...heal ulcers. There must be some advantages to eating properly. Septuagenarian Gayelord Hauser, who has been writing about health for almost 50 years, is still going strong. In fact, a number of such experts have proved durable. Carleton Fredericks, 62, still has a following as does Jonnie Lee MacFadden, widow of Physical Culturist Bernarr MacFadden...
...Eleanor Roosevelt, the subject of one of the finest pieces Vidal has ever written. He turns what is ostensibly a book review (of Joseph Lash's Eleanor and Franklin) into one of the best thumbnail biographies since Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians. To Vidal, F.D.R.'s widow is the finest example of the Christian Puritan aristocrat, dedicated to improving the lives of the masses. In recalling her funeral, he concludes with a passage that out of context seems embarrassingly sentimental but actually reveals a great deal about this "tremendous hater and tiresome nag": "As the box containing...