Prospero (Duke) Vigiano: Our Local Democractic Leader

I guess that's a donkey's head on top of 49 (local dem headquarters) and not a horse's


I never knew that Duke's name was Prospero? No wonder he went for the nickname. If you read between the lines on the 1947 article it looks like the Tammany pols were abandoning one crook, due to Loughlin's association to Frank Costello, for another.