When Al was 19, he went to the mental institution so he could be reunited with his sister, but discovered that she had contracted pneumonia and died, likely due to the institution's negligence.Īs a young man, Al joined the United States Navy, and became an officer and a Naval Aviator. At one point, Al ran away from the orphanage and lived on the road with an African-American pool shark, but after his mentor and friend was arrested, Al was returned to the orphanage. To keep himself out of trouble, he explored many hobbies, including acting and boxing. After the death of their father, Al and Trudy were once again sent to the orphanage and the institution, respectively.Īl was a troubled, but by no means dangerous, youth. A few years later, Al's father returned and the family was reunited until Al's father developed a serious case of cancer.
His father tried to keep the family together, but when his work required him to move to the Middle East, he was forced to put Al into an orphanage and Trudy into a mental institution, which was common practice for the mentally handicapped in the 1940s. During his childhood, Al's mother left the family and married another man. Al had a younger sister, Theresa "Trudy" Calavicci, who had Down syndrome. His father, who worked in construction, immigrated from Abruzzo, Italy and his mother was a Russian immigrant.
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