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...indictment stemmed from hearings last spring by the California state athletic commission (TIME, June 15), during which L.A. Fight Promoter Jackie Leonard testified that Palermo had demanded a piece of the earnings of Welterweight Don Jordan shortly before he became champion in December. Leonard said that Palermo's demands were later backed up by Carbo himself, added that he began getting phone calls threatening bodily harm ("It'll be with a pipe wrapped in a paper sack"). But Manager Don Nesseth, 33, had flatly refused to knuckle under, and, according to the indictment, Leonard had handed over only...
...side while supplying the brainpower for Jim Norris' monopolistic International Boxing Club (dissolved by a U.S. Supreme Court decision in January). Last week, a federal grand jury in Los Angeles handed down an indictment that lumped together Gibson and Carbo, plus a dull-eyed Philadelphia thug named Blinky Palermo and two lesser Los Angeles musclemen. Main charges: extortion and conspiracy to extort...
...Liston has power to spare (6 ft. 1 in., 211 lbs.), plus a pair of fast hands that can nail a chin with a kayo punch (16 knockouts). Liston also has links to boxing's underworld; e.g.. Blinky Palermo of Philadelphia's gangland was once arrested carrying some of Liston's receipted bills. Whatever his connections, many boxing buffs see Liston as the U.S.'s most promising challenger for Sweden's Johansson, even though Liston has so far fought only second-raters. With future title fights snarled by legal difficulties. Liston has no assurance...
...Vatican. Armed with an ad hoc papal decree forbidding Catholics to vote for any candidate allied with the Communists, Sicily's imperious Ernesto Cardinal Ruffini sent Catholic Action groups from house to house warning voters against Milazzo, even attempted in vain to prevent Milazzo from joining Palermo's Corpus Christi procession fortnight ago. In the U.S., the Hearst press urged its Italian-American readers to shower Sicily with anti-Milazzo letters and telegrams; advising the use of night-rate cables, New York's Journal-American pleaded: "Even $2.75 is a small price for preserving democracy...
...police searched for Carbo last month, a Los Angeles fight promoter named Jackie Leonard went before the California Athletic Commission, put the finger squarely on Mr. Grey and his managerial sidekick, a Philadelphia hoodlum named Frank ("Blinky") Palermo. Leonard had promoted most of the key fights of Welterweight Champion Don Jordan. He told a shady story. Last year, when Jordan was still only a challenger, Leonard got a phone call from Blinky Palermo. Blinky demanded that "we" be cut in for a piece of Jordan as a condition for getting a title fight with Virgil Akins. Leonard, together with Jordan...