The motorman was Edward Luciano, a crew dispatcher with light experience operating elevated trains, who was pressed into service during the strike emergency.

After this essay, he was called to assist Goffredo Alessandrini in making Luciano Serra pilota, one of the most successful Italian films of the first half of the 20th century.

Dewey, the District Attorney for Manhattan, had risen to national fame as the " Gangbuster " prosecutor who had sent numerous infamous Mafia figures to prison, most notably Lucky Luciano, the organized-crime boss of New York City.

The individual who has raised the most money in benefit performances and volunteer work on behalf of UNHCR was Luciano Pavarotti.

Gambino also became involved with the " Young Turks ," a group of Americanized Italian and Jewish mobsters in New York which included Frank " Prime Minister " Costello, Albert " The Executioner " Anastasia, Frank Scalice, Settimo Accardi, Gaetano " Tommy Three-Finger Brown " Lucchese, Joe Adonis, Vito Genovese, Meyer Lansky, Benjamin " Bugsy " Siegel, Mickey Cohen, and Charles " Lucky " Luciano, one of the future's most powerful Mob bosses.

Anastasia's violent ways could be contained as long as Luciano and Frank Costello pulled the strings, but certain mobsters, most notably Vito Genovese, doubted whether it was really possible to keep Anastasia reined in.

While the Mafia had abolished the title of " boss of bosses ," Gambino's position afforded him the powers such a title would have carried, as he was now the boss of the largest, wealthiest, and most powerful crime family in the country and was the head of The Commission, a position only Luciano had held before Gambino.

The most important consequence of this episode was the press coverage it engendered, introducing Luciano to the New York public.

Dewey soon realized that he could attack Luciano, the most powerful gangster in New York, through this prostitution network.

However, like most bosses, Luciano created layers of insulation between himself and criminal acts.

Despite the law enforcement surveillance, Luciano was able to greatly expand narcotics trafficking to the United States by Cosa Nostra, making it one of organized crime's most lucrative ventures.

The much publicized exploits of Al Capone with the Chicago Outfit made him the most famous mobster in American history ; however, Capone did not exert influence over other Mafia families, something Luciano did in creating and running The Commission.

For being the Mafia hegemon in the era of landmark mobsters like Albert Anastasia, Frank Costello, Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, Tommy Lucchese, Carlo Gambino, and Vito Genovese, all of whom he led, Luciano is considered by many to have been the most powerful American Mafia boss of all time.

In 1998, Time magazine characterized Luciano as the " criminal mastermind " among the top 20 most influential builders and titans of the 20th century.

Nicknamed " the Prime Minister of the Underworld ," he became one of the most powerful and influential Mafia bosses in American history, eventually leading the Luciano crime family ( later called the Genovese crime family ), one of the Five Families that operates in New York.

Costello kept close associates Luciano, Lansky and Siegel involved in most of his gambling rackets, which included punch cards, slot machines, bookmaking and floating casinos.

The most celebrated example of this form of parole was that of Lucky Luciano, who was being " rewarded " for cooperating with the war effort during World War II.

The lawyer Francesco Sturbinetti, who had led the Council of the Deputies, received the most votes, followed by Carlo Armellini, the physician Pietro Sterbini, monsignor Muzzarelli, in whose hands Pius had left the city and Carlo Luciano Bonaparte, prince of Canino.

His great friend Cathy Berberian ( Luciano Berio's wife ) was one of his most famous interpreters.

Post-war, Franco Corelli, Richard Tucker and Mario del Monaco were the most famous interpreters of the title role during the 1950s and 1960s, while Plácido Domingo became its foremost interpreter among the next generation of tenors, although Domingo's contemporary Luciano Pavarotti also successfully sang and recorded the work.

In conversation with Donald Frankos he would sadly reminisce about the violent and turbulent days in the 1920s and 1930s while he was most active in robbing banks and would always tell fellow convicts that in his opinion, during the days of Al Capone and Charles Lucania, better known as Lucky Luciano, the criminal underworld was the bloodiest.

He spent most of the 1930s as an Assistant United States Attorney in New York, prosecuting gangsters such as Lucky Luciano.

Nice achieved most of its honours in the 1950s with the club being managed by coaches such as Numa Andoire, Englishman William Berry, and Jean Luciano.

In a retrospective review, Allmusic gave it 4. 5 stars out of 5, calling it a " fascinating collection ", and stating that " Zappa's anything-goes approach and the distance between his extremes are what make Weasels Ripped My Flesh ultimately invigorating " In his book Viva Zappa !, Dominique Chevalier wrote that the album is " one of Zappa's most aggressively bizarre works, full of cross-references to free jazz and modern classical musicians such as Luciano Berio.

However, Lansky was a top advisor to Luciano and Siegel a trusted associate.

Unlike Costello, Luciano never trusted Genovese.

Teniente Francisco Absin called his trusted men like Alfonso Facturan, Luciano Libo-on, Alejandro de Padua, Mateo Carinal and others.

Andriessen originally studied with his father and Kees van Baaren at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, before embarking upon two years of study with Italian composer Luciano Berio in Milan and Berlin.

* 2003 – Luciano Berio, Italian composer ( b. 1925 )

* 1931 – Luciano Bottaro, Italian comic book artist ( d. 2006 )

* 1925 – Luciano Berio, Italian composer ( d. 2003 )

* 1910 – Luciano Sgrizzi, Italian harpsichordist and composer ( d. 1994 )

** Luciano Berio, Italian composer ( d. 2003 )

* October 12 – Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor ( d. 2007 )

Luciano Violante, a politician and former president of the Italian Antimafia Commission, countered that " We do not find information about the Mafia among nuns.

Among those who have written their memoirs, the Italian Luciano Lutring ; he called his book of recollections: Il solista del mitra, or The machine-gun soloist.

He appeared in several Italian films, including Hands Over the City ( 1963 ) and Lucky Luciano ( 1974 ) ( both Francesco Rosi's ), and also Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dynamite ( 1971 ).

Unlike other street gangs whose business was petty crime, Luciano offered protection to Jewish youngsters from Italian and Irish gangs for ten cents per week.

On November 19, 1954, an Italian judicial commission in Naples applied strict limits on Luciano for two years.

In early 1948, Luciano met Igea Lissoni, an Italian nightclub dancer 20 years his junior, whom he later described as the love of his life.

Unbeknownst to Luciano, Italian drug agents had followed him to the airport in anticipation of arresting him on drug smuggling charges.

This deal would secure the release of Luciano from prison ; in exchange, the Italian Mafia would provide security for the war ships that were being built along the docks in New York Harbor.

In 1922, Costello, Luciano, and their closest Italian associates joined the Sicilian Mafia crime family led by Joe " the Boss " Masseria, a top Italian underworld boss.

Italian singer Luciano Ligabue dedicated to the victims a song, inserted in his 2010 album,.

Luciano Caruso ( b. July 19, 1957 in Turin, Italy ) is an Italian Jazz composer and Soprano saxophone performer.

In 1966, Italian Disney comics artist Luciano Bottaro wrote a parody of Orlando Furioso starring Donald Duck, Paperin Furioso.

At the behest of Constanten, he studied under the Italian modernist Luciano Berio in a graduate-level course at Mills College in the spring of 1962 ; their classmates included Steve Reich and Stanford University cross-registrant John Chowning.