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...Dago Mangano never discounted the element of risk involved in business ventures; he always made it plain that he had no consuming ambition for power. Mike de Pike Heitler, Benjamin (Zookie the Bookie) Zuckerman and many others of his associates died noisily as the years passed, but Dago Mangano - "always prominent but never a big shot"-prospered in peace...
...this last weekend most of us have had a chance to locate in Boston what we think are the desirable places to spend a shore leave. From the Statler ballroom to the Raymore, Boston people have noticed a new element smoothly moving into their midst. Some had difficulty in identifying us. Warren Sheard was accosted with "Are you in the Army, young man?", at which it is said he pulled the string and got the car. Little wonder...
...element in the Party that mattered most was Candidate Tom Dewey. He came into a position almost unique in U.S. political history-he owed none of the political debts that usually hang on a candidate's neck like so many albatrosses (e.g., the 1932 Roosevelt debt to Messrs. John Garner and William McAdoo for wrecking Al Smith...
...Story. In 1928, at Southampton, L.I., Anne was in her element. She wore a short white dress, drove a blue car with red wheels, went to all the parties, sang, danced, shivered at the thought of growing old, and struggled with the great problem of her life: should she marry Paul Craven...
...work ing with two blokes on a tough bit of element, I suddenly found myself working alone. My two pals just gurgled and dis appeared under the water." In those early hours Rangers had gone ashore in LCTs under cover of darkness. At one point, atop a 200-ft. cliff, were six 155-mm. guns which could sweep the sea approaches. The Rangers shot a grappling hook to the top of the cliff. One of them climbed a rope hand over hand, carrying rope ladders which he made se cure. Up swarmed the Rangers; took the gun positions, knocked...