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1935Bruno Sammartino, Italian-American wrestler and trainer (died 2018)[†]
Bruno Leopoldo Francesco Sammartino was an Italian-American professional wrestler. He is best known for his time with the World Wide Wrestling Federation. Sammartino's first reign as WWF World Heavyweight Champion is the longest recognized men's world title reign in wrestling history.
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PRINCETON, N.J., Oct. 5. -- One of the most exciting and best played opening games any football season has ever seen went to Princeton today by the slimmest margin a winner may have in football, 1 point.
NEW HAVEN, Conn., Oct. 5, -- A nimble-fingered, elusive-footed galaxy of backs in blue put on a typical Notre Dame attack behind a strong, unbalanced line today as Yale launched its football season in the bowl with a highly edifying 34-0 victory over New Hampshire.
A demand that the United States Government maintain a position of "armed neutrality" in its international relations and that education be used to combat the influx of communistic propaganda into this country was embodied in resolutions passed by the Children of the American Revolution, junior auxiliary of the D.A.R., at its seventeenth annual convention at the Hotel Roosevelt yesterday.
OTTAWA, Oct. 5. -- Canada has never known a general election campaign like that which will culiminate on Oct. 14. There are five parties, some 900 candidates and no one clear-cut issue.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (AP). -- Two New England States were reported by the Home Owners Loan Corporation today among the six highest in the country in foreclosure actions resulting from delinquent payment of home owners.
Looted of wooden paving blocks by fuel gatherers; illus
Use of holding cos for pyramiding stock compared with Van Sweringen RR interests
Winterset, by M Anderson
Addis Ababa repts Adigrat is still in Ethiopian hands; rept from Ras Seyoun of Tigre Province; bombs dropped on Dessye; fighting in south; Ital diplomats well guarded in Addis Ababa; evacuation of Dessye probable; bomb victims of Adowa buried; map
CHICAGO, Oct. 5. -- A mild-mannered fellow of thirty-four Summers and Winters pitched baseball of a sort on this wintry afternoon that brought him back, as if by magic, to the Summer of his career, while a crowd of 50,000 congealed spectators looked on spell-bound and as helpless as those who desperately were trying to thwart him.
The problems of old New York in the days just preceding the Revolution were brought home to the Finance Department yesterday afternoon when five certificates of varied denominations calling for payment on demand of a total of 21 shillings were presented for payment.
Registration for the general election in November will begin this year on Tuesday instead of Monday and will close Tuesday night of next week. The change in the registration period for New York City was authorized because tomorrow will be Yom Kippur, a Jewish holy day.