Word: vito
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...competitors are: G. H. Acheson '33, E. C. Allen '35, E. H. Angert '35, H. L. Babbitt '34, R. S. Barnes '35, D. J. Boorstin '34, Robert Breckinridge '34, Lincoln Bryant '33, Jack Chartoff '35, J. C. Cort '35, A. J. De Vito '33, Kenneth Di Menna '34, W. E. Esber '33, A. B. Gardiner '33, J. B. Gilbert '33, E. P. Gordon '33, George Gore...
Christopher Theophilus ("Jim Londos"), who considers himself the world's champion wrestler and has a gold belt to prove it, last week advanced across a Manhattan ring and seized the left arm of Joe De Vito, a rubbery Italian with a pork-barrel torso and a door-knob ear. He gave the arm a vicious twist. De Vito, grunting with unreasonable surprise, retaliated by trying to pluck off one of Londos's toes. For 21 min. 42 sec. the two groveled, grunted, snorted, glowered, slapped, twisted and oozed. Once De Vito bowled over Londos with a butt...
...Each is controlled by a promoter who sees to it that his best performers do not risk prestige or popularity by wrestling against able members of a rival group. Each has a claimant to the world's championship, several more or less high-grade contenders for it. De Vito hitherto has belonged to a group controlled by Paul Bowser, which operates in Boston and the Midwest. The Bowser group also includes Gus Sonnenberg, Jack Sherry, Don George, Henri De Glane (champion). Londos is champion for the most profitable of the three groups, operated by Promoter Jack Curley in Manhattan...