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Born & raised in the shoe-manufacturing town of Brockton, Mass., Rocky was the eldest of six children. At the age of seven he delivered 100 papers a day. He kept up his education long enough to play football as a sophomore in high school, then quit to begin a scrabble of hard odd jobs-dishwasher, ditchdigger, factory candy-mixer, snow-remover, beer-deliverer's helper. He spent three years in the Army (partly ferrying supplies from England to Normandy), and returned to the old blank round. Rocky had boxed a bit in the Army; after his return...
Rest Cure. In Brockton, Mass., after Oscar C. Anderson, 71, admitted leaving the scene of an accident because he was rushing his 18-year-old girl friend to school, the judge fined him $20, advised: "Go home and take it easy...
Among the survivors was Pfc. Joseph Mistretta, 28, of Brockton, Mass., who said that about 250 American prisoners left Seoul on a forced march about Sept. 18. Said Mistretta: "Things began to get pretty bad then. They kept us moving in marches of 15 to 20 miles every day. Some of our buddies died every day. Those who couldn't keep up the march were shot or bayoneted. When a man began to stumble we always carried him along as far as we could but that usually wasn't far enough. I was put in with a group...
...Crowd. In Brockton, Mont. (pop. 350), Raymond Woeppel, the high school's only graduate this year, delivered a valedictory entitled "I am not alone...
Employees of 32 Liggett stores in metropolitan Boston and Brockton are scheduled to walk out. To pay for the strike, the union reports receiving donations which may total...