Word: zivic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British lion's paw, the Bertie McCormick (see PRESS) of the Niger Delta, a coconut grove Jim Farley, and one of the few people in the world who got a high opinion of the U.S. from washing dishes in a Pittsburgh waffle foundry and having Pugilist Jackie Zivic poke thumbs in his eyes...
...student in the U.S., Zik stretched his father's money by working at odd jobs. Besides working in Gammon's Restaurant on Pittsburgh's Liberty Avenue and as a sparring partner for one of the thumb-poking Zivic brothers, he once unwittingly signed on as a coal miner, found himself strikebreaking. He still thinks the U.S. "a country of opportunities for ambitious, energetic young people...
...twice in his life, once by one Milt Aron, another time, with considerable insistence, by a third-rater named Laddie Tonelli. ("They coulda counted a thousand over me in fractions ... I was a goner.") When he fought a "retirement" fight in Memphis last year, a local newsman wired Zivic's home-town Pittsburgh Press to see whether it wanted a story about it. The reply: "Don't bother ... we have plenty of old ones in stock...
...Zivic, as a master of the art of the foil, is able to spar his way out of physical harm's way. But in so doing, he leaves a trail of dissatisfied fans behind. ... He has had more than his day in the ring and his honored name can only be tarnished by a continuance of his present performances. ..." A Zivic fight in Tampa was called...
...Fritzie Zivic, now 33, veteran of 304 fights, and owner of a stable of 17 fighters, couldn't understand everybody's worries. Said he: "I've never been beaten so that I felt it more than a day or two. . . . My head has never hurt . . . I'm still all there." His dress was sharp, his nose potato-shaped, his ears cauliflowered. And he still intended to quit. Said he: "Maybe one more fight in Mexico City next month, then I'm gonna check...