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...Fooled Everybody (THE NATION)-The incredible story of Anthony ("Tino") De Angelis, the onetime Bronx butcher who oiled the way to bankruptcy for 16 companies in the most prodigious swindle of modern times...
...poor Italian immigrants, De Angelis was forced to quit high school to support his parents. Starting out as a meat cutter in The Bronx, he devised a method for speedily dismembering hogs by slicing them up on a moving assembly line. That helped him get a $10,000 loan to open his own pork-packing plant. While still in his 20s, he built it into the largest such operation in the Eastern U.S. and sold copious quantities of meat to the federal school-lunch program...
Doctors have long advocated exercise as an antidote to onrushing middle age-but how many practice what they preach? Most claim to be too busy. Not Bronx Dermatologist Irving Abrahams, 37, and Rumson, N.J., Internist George A. Sheehan Jr., 46, who last week tied for 46th in the Amateur Athletic Union's national marathon championship, run over 26 miles of rolling asphalt road in New York's suburban Westchester County...
...most magnificent buildings. There are large and desperate pockets of poverty, but New York remains far and away the world's wealthiest city. Lindsay is strongly Manhattan-oriented, but the city has four other boroughs, and what applies to Manhattan does not necessarily apply to The Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn or Staten Island. Residents of a green and pleasant Staten Island community might almost have been hearing about a foreign country last week when Congressman Lindsay told them of a city where "streets are dirty and unsafe . . . crime and brutality are rampant . . . and the vicious cycle of slum-living continues...
Died. Lindley Armstrong ("Spike") Jones, 53, antic bandleader of the pistol-popping, whistle-shrieking, Bronx-cheering City Slickers during the 1940s and '50s, a square-jawed musical clown with airplane eyebrows and wildly checked suits, who was an unknown drummer when he formed the Slickers in 1942 and led them to success with rowdy parodies of sentimental hits (Black Magic, Cocktails for Two) until rock 'n' roll drowned him out in 1962; of emphysema; in Los Angeles...