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Blinder Than Basilio. Carmen kept punching. And the beaten little man was not the only one who had trouble seeing straight. Referee Frank Sikora watched him wade into punch after punch, yet gave him round after round. ("What else was you going to do? Body punches? Wooh! He made the fight with them, so I give it to him.") The New York Herald Tribune's Jesse Abramson, a ringside veteran, insisted that the judges who finally overruled Referee Sikora were blinder than Basilio. The punch that closed Carmen's eye, wrote Abramson, was an "incredible piece of luck...
...Later the Herex offered "$50 WEEKLY FOR NEWS TIPS AND NEWS PICTURES. . . . ALL INFORMATION IS CONFIDENTIAL." But both papers continued to get editions out with police assistance. Most distant striker: American Sports Writer Jim Gallagher, who was in New Orleans for a baseball meeting. Notable strike breaker: Margaret ("Maggie") Sikora, who has been working as a Herex stenographer since her "Model Husband," Rudolph, was acquitted of killing her sweetheart. At week's end, 46 American strikers announced through a Hearst spokesman that they were going back to work, adding "It was fun while it lasted!" Guild headquarters insisted their...