Mario Cuomo: A kid from Queens who became NY governor
Mario Cuomo loved to tell the story of how his father, an immigrant from Italy, lost his business in the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
“A broker jumped out the window and landed on his push cart,” Cuomo explained.
A joke, of course. Cuomo had a cutting sense of humor. He and I were members of the same club; he would tell my wife every time he saw her, “Ugly men married to beautiful women.”