Word: szabo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About three times a week, Hungarian-born Sandor Szabo heaves his 225-lb. frame into a Los Angeles wrestling ring and there, under the eyes of a ring and TV crowd, grunts and grimaces for half an hour. From Hungary to California, he has been specializing in step-over toe holds, ankle-drop takedowns, flying mares and other bone crushers for some 30 years. But last week 42-year-old Wrestler Szabo was wistfully eying a new career as a popular singer...
...local music promoter weighed Szabo's audience appeal, and decided that there might be a market for the Szabo voice. He dreamed up a new record label (Hammerlock), and recorded Szabo in two appropriate songs: Take Me in Your Arms and It's All in the Game. To the accompaniment of gypsy strings, Sandor exudes Danubian charm...
Sandor sings in a surprisingly pleasant baritone, and his style is as good as that of most popular balladeers. In the cut-throat music world, nobody but Szabo expects his record to be a Patti Page-style bestseller. But he carries a satchelful wherever he goes, has personally sold 500 copies...
...Miscolc, Tractor Driver Rozsi Szabo enrolled for a course in political orientation. She felt, said Rozsi, that she "absolutely had to make a worthy labor offer for Rakosi's birthday...