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Joe tells stories of boxing in the early '60s. He begins by describing the notorious Emile Griffith - Benny Paret match (1962 March 24). His account is factually wrong. He must have known the facts. I propose he chose to make it more dramatic. You can read my detailed explanation at http://www.armory.com/pipermail/joe-frank-list/2020-October/001298.html The differences don't violate the essence of the story. | |||
He moves on to bouts between Griffith and Luis Rodriguez (Joe says they fought 3 times; it was 4.), Griffith and Ruben 'Hurricane' Carter (the guy in the Bob Dylan song), culminating with Rodriguez's upset victory over Carter. I haven't read accounts of those fights but Joe got the winners right. | |||
24:10: <i>Hydra</i> (Grover Washington Jr) | |||
25:20: Joe talks about bullfighting. | |||
27: Joe tells of the first great bullfighter to admit fear, 'El Gallo' (a nickname) Rafael Gómez y Ortega. The brief article in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_G%C3%B3mez_Ortega , says that it needs additional citations for verification. It is so much like Joe's account I don't trust it. An Internet search turned up https://elsitiodeconcha.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/ahora-que-viene-la-feria-taurina-de-san-isidro/ which has a brief description of him; 2 other links copy this (I don't know which is the original.) Joe's account is consistent with this article; I suspect they didn't get anything from Joe. If someone knows more about bullfighting or an expert to consult I'd love to hear about it. In his next show, <i>[[Arena]]</i>, he mentions waiting for a book about another bullfighter. | |||
31:30: Joe recurs to his 80-yard run; he's off to the University of Iowa for grad school at the Program in Creative Writing (nicknamed Iowa Writers' Workshop). He says the director when he was there was Paul Engle. Engle was the second director of the program, the one who promoted it to fame. He left this post in 1965. Joe says Engle dubbed Iowa City 'the Athens of the Midwest'. I can't find this citation, though others have made it and credited Engle for having made it that. Just about every Midwest town with a large university (e.g., Ann Arbor, Columbia MO, Madison WI) has claimed this title. (I've been: it's okay; haven't been to Athens - hope it's better.) (I e-mailed the workshop; they only keep records of alumni; Joe didn't graduate.) | |||
33:20: Joe says Iowans love football (wasn't the case when I lived there, but their teams were weaker then.) He says their team was rated #1. The last year this happened was 1960, when Joe was 22. Joe says that Forest Evashevski was the coach; 1960 was his last year as coach. (He went on to become the athletic director until 1970.) | |||
34: Joe tells of the mounting excitement before a football game. | |||
39:10: Joe tells of the festivities after a major football game. Joe attends a showing of old silent comedies at the university auditorium. It's crowded. A woman behind him presses against him. He gets excited. Because of the darkness and the crush he doesn't find out who she is. | |||
46:20: Joe joins a late-night football game played by intoxicated people with a pair of socks rolled up into a ball in a pasture. There were no boundaries so you could run as far sideways as you wanted. Joe gets the ball, outruns and fends off all defenders, makes the eponymous run, but bulls keeps him from scoring. | |||
* Boxing - a small boxer fights a very large boxer. | * Boxing - a small boxer fights a very large boxer. | ||
* Bullfighting - the first bullfighter to show fear, and his final dedication. | * Bullfighting - the first bullfighter to show fear, and his final dedication. | ||