Word: wrestler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Until last week there were only two known portraits of him that he had paid for. John Singer Sargent had done them both. Last week a third was added. The painter was one Michael Matsakas, 36, a Greek Chicagoan with curly black sideburns, who has been a busboy, wrestler and interior decorator in public; a poet, philosopher and painter in private. The price: a used pale blue necktie...
Well over six feet in height and built to be a wrestler. Professor Merriman lectures in a deep booming voice which, at crucial moments, rises to a preposterously high pitch. The universal nickname, "Frisky", which ranks with "Copey" and "Kitty" among Harvard's factious sobriquets, has clung to him since his college days, did not spring, as so many think, from his animated platform manner. Anathema to him are hats, newspapers, or sleeping students in the New Lecture Hall just before he begins his lecture. He is a strong Anglophile, swallows his ever present pipe half way down his threat...
...Browning, heavyweight champion wrestler in New York state: a bout against Joe Savoldi, onetime Notre Dame footballer, wrestling champion in Illinois; by decision of the referee, when, after two hours, neither contestant had secured a fall; in Manhattan...
...Londos caught Savoldi's arm in his famed "Japanese scissors"; Savoldi rose from the floor with Londos still clinging to the arm upside down. He stood Londos on his head near the ropes, rolled his shoulders on the mat. Without waiting to count, Referee Bob Managoff, onetime professional wrestler, tapped Savoldi's shoulder, awarded him the match to the intense surprise of both contestants and a crowd of 7,000. Chairman Joseph Triner of the Illinois Athletic Commission decided that Savoldi had won properly, but banned wrestling in the State indefinitely because of the uproar over the decision...
Outraged by the implication that he. a graduate of the University of Vienna, represented "the next thing to a gorilla scientists have been looking for," Zbyszko hired Lawyer Arthur Garfield Hays, sued for $250,000. Defense lawyers insisted that the American's caption meant only that the wrestler was as strong as a gorilla. But Wrestler Zbyszko was able to show that his wife had learned to call him "gorilla" as a term of contempt. The jury found libel, awarded...