Word: rosensohn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cold Calculation. But Rosensohn was proving even more embarrassing in his explanation than in his promotion. Testifying before District Attorney Frank Hogan's grand jury ("I have nothing to hide''), he finally admitted that the real power behind the Patterson-Johansson fight was Harlem's Anthony ("Tony Fat") Salerno, 48, according to Hogan "a known gambler, bookmaker and policy operator," and a friend of Frankie Carbo, leading light in boxing's dim underworld. Rosensohn said that Velella was only a front man for Tony Fat (who had found it convenient to disappear), later went...
...knew there was something unsavory about the promotion," said Bill Rosensohn last week, seemingly as ingenuous as ever. Then the educated boy promoter frankly tacked on a thought that glittered revealingly with cold calculation: "But I never thought these things would be made public...
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