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Readers of LIFE, however, recognized him at a glance. He was the Angel, an awesome, Continental wrestler introduced pictorially to the U. S. by LIFE last September, while he was still being billed in England as "that ferocious monstrosity, not a human being, but 20 stone of brutality." The Angel is now in the U. S. to try his particular brand of might & mayhem in the no-holts-barred roughhouse that passes in the U. S. for wrestling...
Last week in Boston, the 280-lb. Angel took on his first comer, Luigi Bacigalupi, 275-lbs. ringside. In the Boston Arena, 7,000 wrestling fans (twice the usual number) stood on their chairs as the Angel trod up the aisle. In the ring, Bacigalupi whanged the Angel's cowcatcher jaw with a barrage of forearm wallops. The Angel only growled, waded in, got a headlock, a full nelson, a head scissors, an armlock, and then the hold the fans were waiting for -his touted bear hug. He simply crooked his cordwood arms around Luigi's vast circumference...
With his face & form, if the Angel keeps on winning he stands to be the biggest box-office draw in wrestling since Gus Sonnenberg ten years ago showed the way to the current, lucrative stomp-&-tromp, body-slam, flying-tackle technique...
This performance was of interest to 512 former crew members of the scuttled German liner Columbus, sent last fortnight from New York's Ellis Island to be held at San Francisco's Angel Island until passage home could be arranged for them. They had been booked on the Japanese Tatuta Maru but reports of British war vessels waiting offshore to grab them changed this plan. In charge of getting the Columbus men back to the Fatherland is Adolf Hitler's crony. Captain Fritz Wiedemann, Consul General at San Francisco. Waterfront talk was that, now that the British...
...legally signed To erect in Copley Square my statue designed To honor the hero whose cry of alarm Aroused every Middlesex village and farm For the country folk to be up and to arm. Alas! No statue now graces Copley Square. 'Tis enough to make even an angel swear, But being only human I refuse to despair. And I hope that means will be found somewhere So after the lapse of many a year Due honor be paid to Paul Revere...