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...breach of promise verdict obtained by Emelia Tersini, London waitress, against colossal Primo Camera, and to Camera's ensuing petition in bankruptcy (TIME, April 10; et seq.): denial by the New York Supreme Court of Signorina Tersini's application to have a receiver appointed for the $16,000 earned by Camera when he won the heavyweight championship from Jack Sharkey (TIME, July 10). Champion Camera-who last week was picking up change by personal appearances in a Broadway vaudeville house-claimed he had paid his fight receipts to his manager Louis Soresi for a farm in Italy. Said...
...London waitress named Emilia Tersini who won a judgment against him for $14,000 for breach of promise; and the fact that his plea of bankruptcy, shrewdly entered two weeks before the fight, was nonetheless unlikely to leave him free to spend his share of the $200,000 gate receipts.* The news of Camera's victory filled the front pages of Italian newssheets. Meeting in Rome, the International Boxing Federation declared Camera an Italian despite the fact that he once applied for French citizenship. Camera's mother wept when she heard the news. The new champion celebrated...
...Manhattan monstrous, acromegalic Primo Camera appeared before a referee in bankruptcy, sequel to a breach of prom ise verdict for $14,380.25 obtained against him by one Emelia Tersini, London wait ress (TIME, March 24, 1930). Demanded the referee: "Have you any money at all?" Camera : "I dono. That don't intrust me." Referee: "Do you know what a petition in bankruptcy is?" Camera: "Sure. Broke." Referee: "Is that all you know . . .?" Camera: "Yeah...
...Manhattan Primo Camera, prodigious Italian fisticuffer who is scheduled to fight Jack Sharkey for the world's heavyweight championship June 29. filed a petition in bankruptcy, listing assets of $1,182 and liabilities of $59,829, including $14,390 to a London waitress named Amelia Tersini who sued him for breach of promise. ______∙______ Scheduled to address Stanford and Harvard alumni in San Francisco, Stanford Business School's Dean Jacob Hugh Jackson did not appear. Four members of his faculty arrived with apologetic explanations. Dean Jackson had been invited that evening to "bring 25 or 30 students with...
...London one Emelia Tersini, waitress, suing monstrous Boxer Primo Carnera for breach of promise, was awarded ?4,200 ($14,300) on the strength of letters from Carnera saying, "Dear Treasure of Mine. . . . Our little nest of love. . . . You can have trust in your Primo because he loves you with all his heart and soul...