Word: ballyhoo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...professed astonishment at "all this stuff about stealing and robbing." ¶Carmen Basilio, broken-nosed ex-middleweight, ex-welterweight champion, who proclaimed himself enraged that men like Carbo and Palermo were ruining boxing, but who restrained "my inner feelings because there are ladies here." ¶Jack Kearns, aging (79) ballyhoo artist who once managed Jack Dempsey, and the moving spirit behind a boxing managers' guild, whose "good will" Gibson claimed to have purchased at a cost of $130,000. Kearns's chief contribution: a bland assertion that as a young boxer he himself was managed by Wyatt Earp...