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...Worm") Monroe and Bobby ("Boogaloo") Watts, the champion has finally turned the public corner at 30, after coming down that bravest street in boxing, where Stanley Ketchel, Harry Greb, Tony Zale, Rocky Graziano, Jake LaMotta, Sugar Ray Robinson and all the veterans of middleweight wars hang out. The usual lopsided faces congregated again last week in Las Vegas, not just for the big fight but for LaMotta's sixth wedding. Jake is 0 and 5. In the middle of the ceremony at Joey Maxim's place on the gambling strip, a telephone rang but a riot was averted. "What round...
...sweeping measures that limited contacts with Gentiles. The School of Hillel, however, taught that righteous Gentiles merited a share in the world to come if they observed the seven so-called Noahide commandments, basic moral directives addressed to Adam and Noah in the Bible and binding all humanity. The usual Noahide list includes the obligation to help establish a system of justice, plus prohibitions against idolatry, blasphemy, theft, murder, sexual sins and cruelty to animals. According to Falk, the authoritative compendium of Jewish oral law and commentary, the Talmud, says that Moses called upon Israelites to spread knowledge...
Playboy printed 5.9 million copies, 350,000 more than its normal run, while Penthouse is shipping 5.2 million instead of the usual 4.9 million. If Penthouse sells well, Guccione may publish another set of Madonna nudes next month. The onetime artist's model, busy preparing for her wedding next month to Actor Sean Penn, seemed indifferent to all the exposure and declined comment...
...autobiography should carry him effortlessly through the celebrity barrier, though it is not likely that talk-show hosts will draw the usual life-style blather from this tough old rooster. The world he describes is an arena of endless combat where victory means maneuvering behind your opponents and "hammering'em." It happened to Yeager over France, when he was flying his P-51 Mustang and three German fighters jumped him. He parachuted, evaded capture with the help of the underground, and not only made it to England but got the rules bent to allow him back into...
...author's customary beat is major league politics and journalism (The Best and the Brightest, The Powers That Be), and his usual tone is portentous. But in this canny change of pace, David Halberstam becomes a miniaturist, examining the claustrophobic world of competitive rowing...