Word: parker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Piece of the Kid. New York City's Daily Mirror Columnist Dan Parker had a deceptively complicated explanation. Saxton had been a promising amateur boxer, Parker remembered, but as a professional he had earned a shot at the title by knocking over a series of stumblebums. Now he was managed by Blinky Palermo, a Philadelphia hoodlum unable to get a license in New York. To make matters worse, Blinky was friendly with Frank Carbo, the underworld boss of boxing. And Carbo owned a piece of Kid Gavilan...
...possible explanation of the putrid affair," wrote Parker, "is that Signer Carbo ... saw that the Keed not only was getting balky but also was slipping rapidly, and, to keep control of the title, arranged with Blinky -to pass it along to Saxton. Gavilan apparently was suspicious from the start...
...Gavilan had indeed suspected a fix, he had delayed the inevitable by some strange stratagems: first by breaking his hand, next by coming down with the mumps. In the ring, however, there was no doubt that he was reluctant to fight. "There were long, painful intervals," wrote Parker, "in which the two warriors stood and regarded each other like querulous old hens. Then, without a 'shall we dawnce?' cue, they would embrace and waltz a measure...
...student who threatened a counter girl with a knife in Arthur Parker's restaurant at 2 a.m. Saturday will appear for trial in Cambridge Court this morning. Charged with disturbing the peace and possessing a dangerous weapon, the student will either be tried today or have his case continued...
...Harvard student pulled a knife on a waitress in Arthur Parker's luncheonette at 2 a.m. last night. The Cambridge police were summoned immediately and fired three warning shots into the air as the fleeing youth ran down Dunster St. and ducked into the alley in front of the WHRB radio station. Shortly later he turned himself in to the University police...