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...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, aging (79) ballyhoo artist who once managed Jack Dempsey, and the moving spirit behind a boxing managers' guild, whose "good will" Gibson claimed to have purchased at a cost of $130,000. Kearns's chief contribution: a bland assertion that as a young boxer he himself was managed by Wyatt Earp and knocked around Alaska with Author...
...last year with Walter Schieder (an unassuming Harvard graduate student who takes no credit but deserves most of it) and decided to produce a play. Declining several published plays because "they were about grownups--we wanted to do something about kids," they commissioned one from their midst, Frank "Junior" Dempsey, to write a new play, which Dempsey did--in three days...
...What I was trying to show," said Dempsey, "is how teenagers are fixing their own problems up. You see, a lot of people would think that Pete--he's the one that squeals to the other gang to stop the rumble--well, a lot of people would think he's a fink. But he's only trying to help them out. So, you see, the point is, there is no such thing as a fink...
...several factors have distended the play in such a way as to make it reflect, very effectively, the vigor and the sullenness, the intensity and the aimlessness, to which the actors are accustomed--loose and pointless dialogues, interludes of street dancing (choreographed by two of the girls, Pauline Dempsey and Elaine "Muzzy" Moscatel, often disinterested actions, often passionless speech, and informal acting heightened by improvisation...
...them acquired a further taste for Shakespeare. Ann-Marie "Turtle" Cottagio, who would "love to act professionally," said she would like to do a Shakespeare play next, to which a well over six foot, well over 200 pound football player, Richard Herman replied that he would be Shylock. But Dempsey, the playwright, thinks Shakespeare...