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Paul Widerman lost unexpectedly in the 118-lb. class when an old high school nemesis, Wade Genova--whom Widerman had beaten in all 13 of their previous bouts --posted an overtime criteria win on riding time advantage...
...MARYANN GENOVA...
...Unfortunate Milkman. Due to his connections with Mickey and Apples, Witness Genova worked steadily for years. But in 1947 Apples had a barroom fight with a milk truck driver and got his face badly chopped by a broken beer glass during the struggle. Genova was unwise enough to sympathize with his old pal, Apples. "This guy has got to go," Apples told him, "and I want somebody ... to take care of him." Genova refused...
...Next day Genova had no job. A little after that, the milk wagon driver was machine-gunned to death. A little after that, according to Genova, a trucker named William Acosta invited him to dinner, "and he started telling me that he had seen Apples that day and Apples had asked him to set me up ... bring me some place where they could get at me ... So I told him why they were after me. See, the milkman had been killed already at this time. So he said, 'I'm going to say that I missed you, that...
...talked before the crime commission, Genova was asked: "You haven't worked on the waterfront since that time, have you?" Said Genova, in one of the understatements of the year: "No, I haven...