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had reference to talks to me in front of a pizzeria on MacDougal Street and begins to berate me and then she says as she looks into the store and she sees a black guy with a white woman, obviously a couple. She says, “Just a minute,” and she runs into the store and she yells at this woman, “Nigger lover! Nigger lover:” And then she comes running out and she says to me, so help me, “You are nothing but a bigot!” It's a funny story but it happened just that way.

Now, I won anyway, and the people on this committee were very helpful to me. I'm walking along the street a couple of days later and I meet Pete Canevieri, a local guy, who was going to be Carmine's successor. He had been groomed by Carmine. He's not the smartest guy in the world, but he's all right. And he hated me, because, after all, I had taken away his job. He stops me on the street and he says, “Ed, I think you should resign from MANA. You can't help it anymore after what you've done. You really ought to resign.”

That bothered me. So I go to the meeting. I can't even remember at whose house it is; I think it may even have been at Barbara Northrup's house. There are maybe 15 or so people -- Wally Popolizio and Harry Rissetto and Dina Nolan and Nick Marucci, Marie del Gordio, a hole host of people. A lot of these people had come out of Carmine's club, too, but we now had been working together for close to a year. And