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Champion Cat Show, sponsored by Bay State Cat Fanciers. Holiday Inn, Westgate Mall in Brockton...
...name, according to FBI files, was Merlyn La Verne St. George, and he once served two years in San Quentin for petty theft. He variously, and unsuccessfully, ran a tobacco shop, sold drug products and worked as assistant manager of a discount store. Despite his failures, though, friends in Brockton, Mass., where he moved in 1970, say that VonGeorge seemed determined to provide for his wife and seven children...
...Nicola Sacco, a shoe-worker, and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a fish-peddler, were arrested on Brockton street car. They were both Italian immigrants and admitted anarchists. They were soon charged with a double murder and payroll robbery committed three weeks earlier in South Braintree, Mass...
Protest spread to Boston-area high schools yesterday as students from Brockton. Haverhill, and Springfield. Mass., demonstrated in support of the national demands...
...athletics and all sports, Italian-Americans stand out. The late Rocky Marciano, undefeated Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World, and a native of Brockton, comes to mind. Any fan of auto racing has head of Andy Granitelli, the STP man. Vince Lombardi is probably the world's best known football coach, Joe DiMaggio was recently voted the Greatest Living Baseball Player. When one thinks of the Boston Red Sox, he thinks of Tony Conigliaro, Rico Petrocelli and Frank Malzone. Look at a Patriot's Yearbook: Babe Parilli, Nick Buoniconti, Gino Capaletti...