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...Carmen Basilio is a swaggering young (26) ex-marine with the biceps of a riveter and the combative instincts of a Brahma bull. As a prizefighter, he has won 36 out of 51 professional fights, and out of this indifferent record has won the title of New York State welterweight (147 Ibs.) champion. Boxers respect his clumsy punch, but Basilio cuts easily, and when he earned a shot at the world championship, the experts thought him easy meat for a slashing hitter like Cuba's Champion Kid Gavilan. Last week, fighting in his home town of Syracuse, Underdog Basilio...
Gavilan set out to give a boxing lesson, stabbing sharp lefts, waltzing away, rushing in for a ferocious flurry of punches. He got his comeuppance in the second round. Instead of backing away in confusion, Basilio met the champion headon. He shook Gavilan with a right, landed a crushing left hook flush on his jaw. The crowd went wild; for the second time in 112 fights, the great Kid Gavilan was down, flat on his back, eyes glazed, pomaded hair askew. The referee counted to eight before the champion got to his feet and groggily hung on until the bell...
...satisfactory LP of The Barber. De los Angeles' voice, while not so flexible as Pons's in her heyday, is brilliant and accurate in coloratura passages. Monti is a lyrical and affecting tenor, and Rossi-Lemeni's bass is almost too sumptuous for his tomfoolery as Basilio...
Frank belatedly recalls a note of warning which he neglected to pass on to his successors. It seems that Frank wrote a story about Basilio, a 250-lb. ex-wrestler reputed to have the worst temper in all Brazil. Basilio didn't like the story, Frank heard later. From the security of TIME'S Bonn bureau, Frank cabled me recently: "My advice to Cran Jones: if a large, cauliflowered party shows up in my bureau, don't tell him your name isn't White. Neither he nor probably anybody else in Brazil would believe...
...golden basso cantante (a lyric bass rather than a growler) with a natural authority onstage, Siepi won himself an opening-night ovation as the dignified king in Don Carlo. Then, a month later, he shed the dignity like a shirt, became an inspired and pompous fool as Don Basilio in The Barber of Seville. He turned next to Mephistopheles in Faust, sang and acted with his customary conviction...