Word: gibson
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...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...
Wyatt Earp's Boy. Gibson, himself under indictment for conspiring to muscle in on the earnings of former Welterweight Champion Don Jordan, was followed by a parade of less communicative witnesses. Among them...
...pound division, Crimson sophomore Paul Schnitz made up for his humiliating defeat at M.I.T. by pinning his opponent after only 1:13 of the first period. John Gibson, the only varsity wrestler to be pinned last week, also came back with a smashing victory in the 157 pound class...