Eighty years ago last month, one of Mob history’s oddball characters crossed into the great gangland netherworld. Ciro “The Artichoke King” Terranova’s death was not the product of gangland warfare, nor a long prison sentence, but rather one more akin to the consequence of shame, destitution and irrelevance, or so say the whispers of underworld anecdotes. Notwithstanding the official medical reasons for the gangster’s last breath at age 49 – heart failure preceded by two strokes – the gossip of fellow gangsters attributed it to something less tangible. “He died of a broken heart,” former Mafioso turned federal witness Joe Valachi ...