Word: apostolis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When I travel I get moody," says Rocky Graziano. Out in Oakland, Calif., far from his Brooklyn haunts, Rocky was training for a fight with Oldtimer Fred Apostoli when a mood struck him. He wired a friend for $300. When the money came, he hopped a plane, unkempt, unshaven and still dressed in his training clothes. A snowstorm that grounded the plane in Chicago didn't stop him; without bothering to cash the unused part of his plane ticket, he climbed aboard a train for New York...
...supension (for failing to report a $100,000 bribe offer two years ago). He was really lonesome fighting anywhere but in Madison Square Garden, which was "just like my own bedroom." He was pretty proud of one thing: that he didn't go on with his match with Apostoli and take a dive. "I could have picked up the change [about $18,000] and gone into the water," said Rocky righteously...
...From the international court in Tangier he dismissed Judge Fernando Malmussi, a Fascist loyd to Benito Mussolini. With equal majesty, he appointed an anti-Fascist Italian to sit with a Briton, a Frenchman and a Spaniard-thereby giving the court an anti-Fascist majority. The new judge was Giovanni Apostoli, recommended by the Bonomi Government with the approval of London and Paris...
...soldier, he may get a furlough to fight now & then during the next 18 months, as Bummy Davis, Fred Apostoli, Steve Belloise and other enlisted men have done. But Broadway fightmongers last week predicted that Joe will do what he has always hoped to do: retire undefeated champion of the world-as Gene Tunney did, but without benefit of Shakespeare...