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Prizefighter Ernie Schaaf who died after his ring hammering from monstrous Primo Camera (TIME, Feb. 20) was buried at Wrentham, Mass, last week without his brain. His brain remained in Manhattan, scene of the fight, for medical legalists to determine just what caused the death. Primo Camera might have committed murder. Or Schaaf might merely have died during a crisis in his professional life. Jimmy Walker's brother Dr. William H. Walker, who was last week under charges of splitting fees on municipal medical work, had-as medical attache of the New York Boxing Commission-certified that Schaaf...
...been suffering from a chronic or subacute inflammation of the brain. In January he had an attack of influenza. Dr. Norris reported: "The cause of the inflammation cannot be known with certainty, but it may be referred to the ... influenza with a reasonable degree of probability." When monstrous Primo Camera understood what this meant, he was vastly relieved...
...Monstrous Primo Camera: his fight against Ernie Schaaf for the right to a world's championship bout against Jack Sharkey; by a knockout in the 13th round; in Manhattan. Schaaf, hospitalized immediately after the fight, recovered consciousness after 1 hr. and 45 min., developed an intracranial hemorrhage. Sports-reporters, incorrigibly skeptical about all Camera's doings, first described the knockout as a fake, hastily acknowledged its authenticity three days later when doctors operated to remove a blood clot from Schaaf's brain. Schaaf, 24, never rallied, died early next morning...
...wearing 22 years ago was handed to the Council, which forthwith decided that Count de Romanones' lands are confiscate. He can and undoubtedly will appeal to the Cabinet of Premier Azana, may win leniency because of his reputation for having opposed the Dictatorship of the late, hated General Primo de Rivera...
...Madrid, because he kicked a policeman who intervened when he and his pugnacious brother Miguel were quarreling with taxi drivers, Fernando Primo de Rivera, son of Spain's late Dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera, was sentenced to three years, four months, eight days in prison...