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THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF SPORT
May 16, 1955
GOLF WITH MISS ROMACK
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May 16, 1955

The Wonderful World Of Sport

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The inquiry, Helfand said, will continue until the question of boxer "control" is settled. Norris and Daly will be called to testify.

Recumbent hoodlum Eddie Coco, snoozing in Dade County jail, awaits transfer to Raiford ( Fla.) state prison, to begin his life sentence for the murder of a Negro car washer in Miami Beach. A former manager of Rocky Graziano, a friend og Jim Norris, IBC boss, who once gave him an excellent character refernce, Coco had powerful friends and much money, some of it derived from running floating crap games. A first conviction was set aside because of error, a second was hampered by disappearing evidence, but Coco finally was done.

Recumbent boxer Harold Johnson, leaving a Philadelphia ring on a stretcher, collapsed between rounds and remained unconscious. Doctors assumed he had been drugged, perhaps by a "bitter" orange.

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