Word: vanneman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Toro, the bewildered victim, is nominally "owned" by a lewd fat man, Vince Vanneman, who fixes every one of his fights on a coast-to-coast tour that Eddie promotes into a triumphal march. Nick, the powerful and deadly racketeer who actually owns El Toro as he owns Eddie, also owns the aging heavyweight champion, Gus Lennert. Gus is soon to retire, after drawing one big purse for getting massacred by the challenger, Buddy Stein, and another for doing a nose dive before El Toro. Nick has all the elements nicely calculated except his wife, Ruby, a ladylike tramp...
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