Word: joes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Tony ("Two Ton") Galento, 69, brawling beer-bibing heavyweight who once knocked Joe Louis down but lost the championship fight; of a heart attack; in Livingston, NJ. Cigar in hand, Galento would greet each bout with the boast: "I'll moider da bum." In 15 years as a professional, he "moidered" his opponent 72% of the time before hanging up his gloves in 1944. In a brief fling at acting in the 1950s, Galento appeared with Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront...
...Joe, gimme a little more pus on that dead baby...
...What's Up Doc? (1972) initially ended with a bittersweet goodbye between Ryan O'Neal and Barbra Streisand at an airport, but by the time the film was released Barbra was on the plane and cuddling with Ryan. Irene Dunne died heroically in A Guy Named Joe (1943) and joined Spencer Tracy in heaven, but came back to life after MGM ordered a new finish. Tracy stayed dead...
...chief competitors were the pushy and aggressive Galante, who in 1974 shot his way into control of the criminal clan once run by Joseph ("Joe Bananas") Bonnano, and Aniello Dellacroce, 65, the treacherous head of the Gambino family...
...Joe McCarthy story is more complicated. Pearson, says Anderson, had an early tip on Alger Hiss's Communist connection but, unable to substantiate it, had turned it over to the Government. And when McCarthy needed evidence to support his wild charges of Reds in Government, Anderson gave him an unsubstantiated tip about one of Truman's speechwriters; a & amp;quot;burn of shame singed through me," he says, when McCarthy denounced the man in the Senate. In time, McCarthy turned on Pearson, who had never been a big fan of the Senator's anyway. Calling Pearson...