Picture: Seton Hall University Libraries The story of Joe Colombo, the Mafia boss who briefly turned ethnic politician, is one of the most frightening stories I’ve come across. An instructive story, ...

“..Always elegantly dressed and never without a pipe in his mouth, Colombo furnished fitting images to accompany his designs: that of a "designer dandy" who was ...

Trader Joe's was born in 1958 as a small chain of Southern California convenience stores opened by a drugstore executive named Joe Coulombe. In 1967 he changed the stores' name from Pronto Markets ...