Sport: Mann Out
"To tell the truth, I heard ten but awful faintly."
Thus mumbled New Haven's Nathan Mann (Natalino Menchetti) after two and a half rounds of trading punches with Detroit's Joe Louis for the heavyweight championship of the world.
Tony, Giuseppe, Marco, Frank, Mabel, Jenny, Stella and Papa & Mama Menchetti wept at 22-year-old Natalino's accident-by-bombing on the road to glory.
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