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Boxing's biggest current attraction is a roughneck middleweight from Manhattan's tough Mulberry Street. Rocco ("Rocky") Graziano packed them in at Madison Square Garden last week for what fans thought would be his sixth straight knockout, a new Garden record. He fooled himself and the fans by winning on points from ex-Sailor Sonny Home...
Durante was followed by the handsome chanteuse, Hildegarde, and by some excerpts from the U.S. Army Air Forces' Broadway smash hit, Winged Victory. Correspondent Quentin Reynolds made some remarks about the fighting fronts; Maurice Rocco, who impresses many people by playing the piano standing up, gave some agile boogie-woogie. Bob Hope closed the bill in smash style with comments on his recent battlefront tour. Sample...
Green-suited Eddie Johnson (George Montgomery) is a gambler out of work. His old colleague Joe Rocco (Cesar Romero) has done better: he owns the fanciest joint in Coney and employs Kate Farley (Betty Grable) as his star entertainer. Johnson sets up a rival establishment and starts stealing Rocco's talent as well as his business. Amidst the chicanery and the fisticuffing, Miss Grable shapes a fine career for herself on Broadway and in the arms of the man who was down but never out. She has always had a gift for looking well in the fewest possible clothes...
...first minute of the five-minute overtime session. Hyde put Harvard ahead by two points, but Tufts Rocco Antonelli tied it up two minutes later. Then Hyde's foul with a minute to play looked good enough to win, and the Crimson waived two fouls to keep possession of the ball. But these tactics proved fruitless when Andy Gibbons sneaked away on a sleeper play and converted a pass from Antonelli to win the battle with twenty seconds remaining...
...Trenton, N. J., Rocco Favorito & wife, convicted of conspiracy to defraud, declared before the State Supreme Court that as man & wife they were legally one, therefore could not be guilty of conspiracy. The Court ruled that man & wife are legally...