Word: yussele
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...Manhattan's Supreme Court appeared one Helen Butler Jacobs to sue the estate of Joe ("Yussel the Muscle") Jacobs, late fight manager, for $1,000 and a third of his share of the Max Baer-Tony Galento fight, claiming she was his wife. Said William J. McCarney, Jacobs' former business partner: "He had half a dozen girls. . . . When he introduced another woman to me as his 'little wife' I asked him if he was married. 'Do you think I'm crazy?' he answered...
...sidewalk outside Boxing Tsar Mike Jacobs' 49th Street ticket office-there was gloom one day last week. Promoters, matchmakers, managers, trainers, seconds and the miscellaneous collection of has-beens and hangers-on who make a daily appearance at pugilism's trading post, shook their heads, dumfounded. For "Yussel the Muscle." their most picturesque colleague, and only 43 years old. had died of a heart attack the night before...
...Yussel the Muscle" was Joe Jacobs, no kin to Mike. He was not only the most colorful but the smartest manager in the prizefight business. Son of an immigrant Jewish tailor who settled in Manhattan's hurly-burly Hell's Kitchen, puny little Yussel Jacobs had to live by his wits to defend himself against his tough Irish neighbors. By the time he was 16. he commanded so much respect that he managed two neighborhood pugs. Dave and Willie Astey...
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