Cordano

A judge—a federal judge, in fact—had declined to give a jail sentence to Louis Cordano of Mission Street, who had been convicted of a prohibition violation; among Italians, the judge said, wine “is as necessary as coffee to the average American and tea to the average Englishman.”

LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

A judge—a federal judge, in fact—had declined to give a jail sentence to Louis Cordano of Mission Street, who had been convicted of a prohibition violation; among Italians, the judge said, wine “is as necessary as coffee to the average American and tea to the average Englishman.”

LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

I would walk down long silent corridors, past original Spanish paintings of the Virgin Mary and child, twisted "Salonica" golden snake columns and unbreakable Inca stone walls, to the hotel bar, where I would drink the best Pisco Sours (aside from Lima's Cordano bar) in Peru.

Karin Badt: From Cuzco to Machu Picchu: A Trek into Peru 2009

After noting them down, I go to seek out Father Virgil Cordano.

Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009

I am struck by Father Virgil Cordano’s emphasis on his friend’s rare combination of gaiety of heart with purity of spirit.

Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009

‘Virginia never cried about what went wrong,’ Father Virgil Cordano assures me; I’m not so sure.

Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009

‘She had no time for regrets,’ says Father Virgil Cordano, the brown-robed friar who converted Virginia to Catholicism, her husband’s faith, back in 1952.

Chaplin’s Girl Miranda Seymour 2009