Word: carbo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dominating the proceedings from offstage was Racketeer Frankie Carbo, 56, known to business colleagues as "The Uncle," "The Southern Salesman," "Mr. Grey" and (in his younger, hungrier days) "Jimmy the Wop." Once convicted of manslaughter and five times arrested on suspicion of murder, Carbo is currently serving a two-year sentence for illegally operating as a boxing manager and matchmaker. In Carbo's absence, his pervasive influence over the boxing world was detailed by a man who should know: Truman K. Gibson Jr., 48, Negro ex-secretary of the now defunct ring monopoly, the International Boxing Club...
...Facts of Life. A onetime (1948-51) member of the President's Committee on Religion and Welfare in the Armed Forces, University of Chicago Graduate Gibson imperturbably testified that Carbo was one of "the facts of life" in boxing. In order to ensure that Carbo would make the boxers he controlled available for I.B.C. fights, said Gibson, the I.B.C. paid more than $40,000 to the ganglord's wife whose last known address proved to be half a mile out in Florida's Biscayne...
There were other facts of life, too, Gibson admitted. The cartel paid $9,000 to Hoodlum Frank ("Blinky") Palermo, who is allegedly running Carbo's boxing empire while the boss is in jail. While Gibson doodled, Subcommittee Investigator John Bonomi summed up his testimony: "Almost every leading manager or promoter in the U.S. is either closely associated with or controlled by Frankie Carbo in some degree...
...Hymie the Mink" (square moniker: Herman Wallman), a Manhattan furrier turned boxing manager, who could not hide his astonishment at Gibson's volubility ("You or I would take the Fifth Amendment," Hymie told a reporter). Admitting that he knew Carbo shuffled managers and fighters like a deck of marked cards, Wallman nonetheless professed astonishment at "all this stuff about stealing and robbing." ¶Carmen Basilio, broken-nosed ex-middleweight, ex-welterweight champion, who proclaimed himself enraged that men like Carbo and Palermo were ruining boxing, but who restrained "my inner feelings because there are ladies here." ¶Jack Kearns...