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...Long Island City, Augustine d'Ambrosia, 19, threw Frank Santonica, 17, to safety from in front of a subway train, was crushed to death himself. His right leg broken, body and face lacerated, Santonica denied suicidal intentions, exclaimed : ''Gee, he must have been a game...
...Primo Camera, monster Italian. Suddenly the crowd stood up, yelled, hooted. Someone in Bombo's corner had thrown in a large white towel, giving the fight to Carnera. Immediately the California Boxing Commission started an inquiry, summoned Bombo, who said Perry, his own second, was the man who threw the towel, that Perry had threatened to kill him if he did not "lie down" for Camera. Bombo further said that Camera's crowd had bribed Bombo's seconds to rub irritants into Bombo's eyes and choke him between rounds. The California Commission revoked Camera...
...stay nearly an hour and quite unbend; to have him say gallant, flattering things and laugh his infectious laugh-such not long ago was the reward of a U. S. widow, Mrs. Henriette Tower Wurts, when she gave her sumptuous, ancient Roman gardens to the City of Rome and threw in $50,000 for perpetual upkeep. She received the double reward last week of an invitation to Edda Mussolini's wedding...
...worked for a minute to loosen the cramp which Bell indicated as having stricken his left thigh. The crowd expected him to come out of the club after a rest and go on with the match, but Hunter ended that possibility. Angry, quiet, decisive, he picked up his rackets, threw his white sweater over his shoulders, marched into the locker room, claimed the match by default. Bell had quit, he pointed out, while he was ready to go on. Officials conferred hastily, upheld his claim...
...waddled about the business district of St. John's on two occasions and had once strolled from his home in the Umzipulu River to Durban, where he entered the lobby of a hotel. Friendly, the hippopotamus is reported to have lost his temper only once, when natives threw stones at him, causing him to charge them, injuring...