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Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll (born Uinseann Ó Colla, July 20, 1908 – February 8, 1932) was an Irish-American mob hitman in the 1920s and early 1930s in New York City. Coll gained notoriety for the alleged accidental killing of a young child during a mob kidnap attempt.
Pages in category "Auction houses based in New York City" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Seamen in hiring hall, NMU banner, New York City, December 1941. (Photograph: Arthur Rothstein) The NMU was founded in May 1937 by Joseph Curran and his allies, which at the time included Jack Lawrenson. [1] [2] At the time Curran was an able seaman and boatswain aboard the Panama Pacific Line ocean liner SS California.
Curran with Thomas E. Dewey in 1948. Curran was born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and grew up in Greenwich Village, where he lived for the rest of his life.After attending Xavier High School, he entered Fordham College, from which he graduated in 1920 after serving in the United States Army during World War I and then in the New York National Guard.
American Gladiators [3] [4] is an American competition television program that aired weekly in syndication from September 1989 to May 1996. The series matched a cast of amateur athletes against each other, as well as against the show's own "gladiators", in contests of strength and agility.
New York City: Forge Books, 2004. ISBN 0-7653-0706-5; Horne, Gerald. Red Seas: Ferdinand Smith and Radical Black Sailors in the United States and Jamaica. New York: New York University Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8147-3668-8; Kempton, Murray. Part of Our Time: Some Monuments and Ruins of the Thirties. Hardcover reprint ed. New York: Random House, 1998.
Curran's dance company, the Seán Curran Company is based in New York City. As a boy in the Boston suburb of Belmont, Massachusetts, Curran began dancing by learning traditional Irish step dancing. "I used to go once a week for a dollar," Curran recalled in a 1999 New York Times profile, "I learned quickly and our teachers had us performing ...
The company was founded by a group of employees of the American Art Association, including Otto Bernet, Hiram H. Parke, Leslie A. Hyam, Lewis Marion and Mary Vandergrift. By 1964, the company was the largest auction house in America, [1] with 115 employees and total sales of $11 million ($108 million in 2023). That year, Sotheby's purchased a ...