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Zalmie is wounded while performing in a USO show during World War One and returns home, maturing into a sort of Vito Corleone. America becomes the battleground, and Al Capone-style gang killings flash left and right, suspended in a vacuum, as "Sweet Georgia Brown" trumpets on the soundtrack. After Zalmie's wife is gunned down, he goes to his son Benny who is playing jazz with blacks, and pleads, "If you won't live my dream, at least live my life"--a characteristically melodramatic clinker that calls embarassing attention to itself...
Hagler's next defense will be in the spring, probably against former champion Vito Antuofermo. After that, a multi-million dollar showdown with either Sugar Ray Leonard or Thomas "Hit Man" Hearns is almost certain...
...ring is full of people. They are being introduced over the public address. I cannot make it out. Most of them are New England champions or contenders of some weight class. The only one I recognize is Vito Antuofermo, who may be the only man who is ugly from a hundred yards away. Then the announcer gives an Italian name and a Korean guy steps up. He is confused. They pull him back. He blushes, he is confused. Above him the flag is backwards...
Hagler lost his chance at the crown last year when he drew with Vito Antuofermo, whom Minter subsequently defeated twice--once by decision, once by an eighth-round knockout...
Unlike McCarthy, Lader is a qualified source, though he admits that his involvement disqualifies him as a purely objective source. From 1946 to 1950, he was district leader and public relations adviser to Congressman Vito Marcantonio of New York's East Harlem-Yorkville district. Marcontonio was perhaps the most effective and controversial radical ever to sit in the U.S. House of Representatives--one of the only politicians ever to include the Communist Party in his coalition of supporters and still win elections. Lader also ran successfully on Marcantonio's American Labour Party ticket in 1948 and later organized a Reform...