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Poised and confident as she had been at Cortina, Tenley skated out to repeat her Olympic routine. In her gold wool jersey, she danced across the ice to the music of Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld. Satisfied with her performance, she said: "If that doesn...
...Spain we are told. In Mozart's opera the action covers just one day, but the Don tries like the devil to up his total by four or more. Naturally, he ends up with the devil himself and sinks out of sight to the accompaniment of the Underworld's trombones and smoke...
...downtown saloons of the city a faint echo of Boise's ripsnorting frontier days can still be heard, but its quiet residential areas and 70 churches give the city an appearance of immaculate respectability. Recently, Boiseans were shocked to learn that their city had sheltered a widespread homosexual underworld that involved some of Boise's most prominent men and had preyed on hundreds of teen-age boys for the past decade...
...nothing to do with State Athletic Commissioner Julius Helfand's investigation into the affairs of Jim Norris' International Boxing Club, which has a strangle hold on big-time professional boxing. Yes, Gimbel was aware that SPORTS ILLUSTRATED had exposed the connections between Multi-millionaire Norris and underworld characters such as Frankie Carbo. Yes, he had heard Norris testify to his friendship with Carbo. Still Barney Gimbel insisted, "I do not know the man [Carbo] nor do I know who he knows or what he does. What I do know is that I had contemplated this move...
...retired to his 800 closely guarded acres near Fowler, Ind. to live the life of a gentleman farmer. Many of his old pals, including Anthony ("Tough Tony") Accardo and Murray ("The Camel") Humphreys, turned up at his wake in suburban Berwyn, Ill., to which the elite of the Chicago underworld were invited...