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sters, both real (John Gotti) and fictional (Tony Soprano). Sconces to hold lights look like 9 mm handguns.
• And some nights, he serves up a special he calls Joey's Pork Chops, in honor of Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino, the reputed Philadelphia-South Jersey mob boss. He's also happy to tell customers stories from his past.
• Lutz is using some unsavory associations as he attempts a transformation from inmate to opinionated celebrity chef.
• Last week, he moved his operations from an 11-table restaurant to one three times as large on a prominent corner of the hip, foodie-friendly Philadelphia suburb of Collingswood.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
• Today is Thursday, Oct. 31, the 304th day of 2013. There are 61 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Oct. 31, 1517, Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Palace church, marking the start of the Protestant Reformation in Germany.
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• On this date:
• In 1795, English poet John Keats was born in London.
• In 1864, Nevada became the 36th state.
• In 1887, Nationalist Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek was born in Zhejiang Province.
• In 1926, magician Harry Houdini died in Detroit of gangrene and peritonitis resulting from a ruptured appendix.
• In 1938, the day after his "War of the Worlds" broadcast had panicked radio listeners, Orson Welles expressed "deep regret" but also bewilderment that anyone had thought the simulated Martian invasion was real.
• In 1941, the Navy destroyer USS Reuben James was torpedoed by a German U-boat off Iceland with the loss of some 100 lives, even though the United States had not yet entered World War II. Work was completed on the Mount Rushmore National Memorial in South Dakota, begun in 1927.
• In 1959, a former U.S. Marine showed up at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow to declare he was renouncing his American citizenship so he could live in the Soviet Un (Continued on page 26)
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