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...Hooks-fought a battle over her charms. Nearly 50 years later, men were still at it. While Mae was touring U.S. nightclubs in 1956 with a troupe of male weight lifters, she was again an interested onlooker (or so she says in her autobiography) as one of her musclemen punched another in the jaw in a quarrel over her beldame favors...
Fortnight ago the Amsterdam underworld, outraged by declining dividends, took matters into its own hands, dispatched a flying squad of 50 musclemen, who set upon a gang of nozem out on a heckling foray and administered professional beatings all around. The same evening Amsterdam's police commissioner got a telephone call from the city's leading racketeer. Willem ("Fat Steak'') Wagenaar. Said Fat Steak: "If you can't keep order in our district, we'll take over. Keep your police at home; we'll fix the nozem." Bubbling with official indignation, the commissioner...
Cemented Partnership. The jukebox musclemen never hesitated to take direct action. Brooklyn Jukebox Operator Sidney Saul sobbed as he recalled the night two years ago when a trio of ex-convicts fed nickels into one of his own machines to drown out his screams, and thoroughly thumped him until he agreed to split his profits. The bulk of the beating was administered by a workmanlike hoodlum named Ernest "Kippy" Filocomo. Said Saul: "He began punching me in the head and face. When I pleaded for him to stop, they kept saying to each other, 'This fellow...
...well-developed fellas." They seem to like to crowd close to ringside, curse the villains, cheer the heroes, and punctuate the performance with strategically planted hatpins. In Manhattan, where wrestling fans bought out Madison Square Garden seven times last year and caused two small-scale riots, the most popular musclemen make up the tag team of Antonino Rocco and Miguel Perez. Rocco does so well that he is the highest paid wrestler now in the racket. He owns a ranch in Argentina and earns close to $180,000 a year. At least ten others, Mondt insists, make...
Only one new quiz show was announced, Brains and Brawn, in which intellectual quiz athletes team up with actual musclemen. (After the brains match memories in familiar fashion, the brawnier contestants match skills in athletic derring-do.) An announcer's throbbing voice pledged continued loyalty to Twenty-One. But the irrepressible comics had a field day kidding the quizzes. "When the subject of my new show came up," cracked Bob Hope, "all General Sarnoff said was, 'Never mind if it's funny. Is it honest...