Word: carbo
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...James D. Norris, 59, sports promoter and onetime Mr. Big of boxing; following a heart attack; in Chicago. The son of a Chicago millionaire, Norris won notoriety in the late 1940s and '50s as the boss of the Internation al Boxing Club, through which he and Hoodlum Frankie Carbo held a monopoly on virtually all major fights until 1959, when the U.S. Supreme Court broke their hold. Norris faded from view, quietly operating his vast grain, railroad, real estate and cattle interests plus the Spring Hill Farm stables, Chicago Black Hawks hockey team, and stadiums in Chicago...
Last week, one by one, Sonny's chums and associates paraded before the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly in Washington. There was Sam Margolis, a pudgy, pious Philadelphian, who freely admitted his friendship with Blinky Palermo, who, as everyone knows, is a friend of Frankie Carbo, who in turn is nothing less than elite-at least in his line of work...
...times since 1950, convicted twice (armed robbery, assaulting a police officer), spent a total of three years in prison. His underworld connections are notorious: he worked as a head-knocking labor goon for St. Louis Hoodlum John Vitale, and his boxing career was supervised by stooges of Ganglord Frankie Carbo...
...right. Then he pitched forward on his face for Listen's knockout No. 23. Westphal collected $12,000 and a plane ticket back to Germany. Liston got $80,000, of which $18,000 was earmarked for his ex-manager, Joseph ("Pep") Barone, sometime front man for Hoodlum Frankie Carbo...
Fish-eyed Frankie Carbo, 56, boxing's undercover czar, took one on the chin in Los Angeles last week. A federal jury convicted the Murder, Inc. graduate of extortion, conspiring to grab a piece of ex-Welterweight Champion Don Jordan's purses and threatening his manager and a promoter. Carbo, who has served time for manslaughter and illegal matchmaking but beaten five murder raps, faces up to 85 years in prison and $50,000 in fines. Also convicted were his chief errand boy. Frank ("Blinky") Palermo; Lawyer Truman Gibson Jr., once president of the now defunct International Boxing...