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As in past performances given by him [Mitch Miller] in the Klein, the long-haired, bemustached and begoateed gentleman of 35, was enthusiastically applauded and was called back four times to acknowledge warm reception.

1947 November 28, Tere Pascone, “Connecticut Symphony Concert Features Mendelssohn Tribute”, in The Bridgeport Telegram, volume LVI, number 279, Bridgeport, Conn., section “Given Warm Reception”, page fourteen, column 8

It’s hard to go wrong with the ravishing Norma Bengell, a leading star in Italian and Brazilian cinema throughout the past four decades (known to fans of classic Italian horror from Mario Bava’s Planet of the Vampires), as Nino’s supportive wife, Marta, who brings her own kind of intuition into the family, granting his bemustached sister some confidence (with the help of beauty technology) and, like her husband, establishing an adaptive approach to life that incorporates the industrialized North and the tribal South.

2007 March 15, Jason Shawhan, “Mafioso: It’s all in the family”, in The Tennessean, volume 103, number 74, Nashville, Tenn., page 53