Word: lamotta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Onetime Middleweight Boxing Champion Jake LaMotta, 34, now a Miami saloonkeeper, drew a six-month jail stretch and a $500 fine on raps of helping a 14-year-old vice doll hustle in his bar and running his joint for a lewd purpose...
...audience rating of Celanese Theater, which this week won a 1952 Peabody Award (see above), has suffered because the show (alternate Weds. 10 p.m., ABC) has played opposite such attractions as the fights between Jake LaMotta & Gene Hairston, Sugar Ray Robinson & Rocky
...Afterwards everyone stands around limply wondering how Turpin managed to stand up under the beating. "Him and Lamotta has de hahdest two haids in de world," a fan says, shaking his head. The standee is $270 poorer. His enthusiasm is gone. "Guess I hafta walk home," he mutters to no one in particular and starts down the long flight of stairs. The entertainment is over...
...Afterwards everyone stands around limply wondering how Turpin managed to stand up under the beating. "Him and Lamotta has de hahdest two haids in de world," a fan says, shaking his head. The standee is $270 poorer. His enthusiasm is gone. "Guess I hafta walk home," he mutters to no one in particular and starts down the long flight of stairs. The entertainment is over...
...Jake LaMotta, whom Robinson later beat five times. *Remarked one Briton: "I hear Cadillac has agreed never to paint another like that." His friend, after a thoughtful pause: "No, really? But still, I shouldn't think there'd be many chaps who'd want that color...