European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 20, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse Yank the army weekly july 1945 by Dan polier yank staff correspondent camera squeezed his 240pound Hulk into the front seat of the jeep and listened patiently while we read his obituary to it was a very touching Story of the life and death of the former heavy weight which appeared in a new York newspaper Back in 1943 when Satch was reported executed by a German firing the Story described Primo As the Saddest Man in it told How cameras opponents had to be treated to a couple of whiffs of chloroform Between rounds How his managers bled him White by investing his Money in phony Oil Wells and Gold mines How camera left sick and and went his first Job of faking As a Strong Man in a circus and married a girl from an English pub How he wound up fighting and dying with italian partisans in world War Primo roared what son of a Bitch wrote that despite the hardships of Primo says he has been much happier during the past few years than he was during his heyday As Cham since his return from the he has been living the peaceful life of a gentleman Farmer with his wife and two children in a Fine Home in this Little Village where he was Primo looks like anything but a broken he had a rough time with an infected kid Ney several years but it has been removed and today he looks As fit and bullish As he Ever his weight is 20 pounds under his old fighting there is some confusion about cameras he claims to be Only 36 but the books list him As cameras wife Josephina is a attractive Brunette of 30 from Northern in 1939 they met in the Market place at Udine and after a whirlwind courtship of a few months they were they went to Naples and Capri on their honeymoon and then settled Down to live in equals in primes new Josephines big com plaint with Primo is that he is he absolutely refuses to do any work around the she said and he is always giving me his shoes to the Only thing i can get him to do is go to town for he loves to go to town and talk with the since you americans came i Haven had a min utes Primo is always bringing soldiers Home with him and they sit up drinking until All hours of the both the camera children Are Normal sized and look like their the is impressed by the stories of his fathers ring Ca he wants to be a Prino says but i wont let its a Tough his father was a that Primo Calls his Twoy Earold Daugh Joanna his doll and showers affection on Josephina has warned Primo against showing favouritism but thinks she is wasting her Joanna is the first girl Ever born in the camera family and Primo considers her his per Sonal scattered prominently throughout the costly camera House Are Primos boxing entering the front door you Are Likely to stumble Over what feels like a tank but upon close inspection turns out to be Bronze impressions of of Sachs massive hand and they Are used As in the living hanging Over the is a full length painting of camera in fighting trunks with his hand raised in Victor displayed on the mantelpiece in a Glass Case Are the gloves Primo wore when he flattened the Jack with that invisible Primos Bulky scrapbooks Are on the on chairs and even on the thumbing through their you cant help but notice that he has carefully omitted All clippings of his fights with Joe Max and Leroy All of which ended in knockouts of i forget about the ones i he Primo works out almost daily in the which adjoins his using any farm hand Primo with his new manager Josephina and their two Umberto and Joanna v r n e r a who needs a few extra lire As a sparring he says he has no idea of staging a comeback either As a Boxer or a Primo holds the heavyweight wrestling championship of a dubious title he won three years ago from some he still wrestles on Occa Sion in Udine to help out his old promoter Charlie is a onetime new York gangster who was deported to Italy after serving 10 years on a murder he is now working for the am in recently camera boxed an exhibition at Gorizia against Homer a 91st division Soldier from his weight was announced As nine pounds less than when he won the heavyweight title from Jack Sharkey in More than american soldiers saw him in but there was Only one solid blow struck during the three the reports that Primo fought with the parti sans and was wounded in the leg Are phony and Primo himself is the first to admit even today he is no i was Primo i was respected by my people and i was respected by the he was perhaps More respected by the because they hired him As an overseer of italian workers at a mine near when Max Schmeling toured the italian Primo and Josephina were invited to spend the weekend in where camera and Schmeling made a propaganda movie for the later Schmel ing came up to equals to spend a weekend with the Schmeling is an old camera he can hardly stand up anymore because of his which was wounded at he claims he hates the germans because they stole his prop erty in his wife ran off with some nazi party we talked mostly about v Schmeling wants to go Back if he according to his relationship with the germans want always so last he the germans followed him As he withdrew from the Bank to buy some property and broke into the House and threatened to Short his wife and children if he didst hand Over the Primo also accused the is of stealing his custom built leaving him Only a bicycle to travel to 25 Miles cameras big of is to return to i love the he he Hast heard any news from America in five he didst know Billy Conn even existed and when told Conn weighed Only 175 pounds he another Tommy Primo was full of questions about his old he asked about Jack Maxie Benny Damon and wanted to know if Joe Paloska was still Champion of the but he was most interested in knowing about Jack now commander my old he taught me a lot in the does he still have his restaurant next to the Garden strangely Primo Doest consider Joe Louis As the Best fighter he he gives this distinction to George another negro heavyweight whom he fought in Philadelphia in winning on a foul in the fifth Godfrey was one helluva fighter for three or four Primo but after that he would he could Knock your head off with one Jack Dempsey fight contrary to popular Primo didst leave America he claims to have a Small for tune socked away in a new York Bank and says he owns two apartment houses in which his is managing for Primo Doest nurse any grudges against his old manager Leon the French Sharpie who took him to i owe a lot to he he taught me All i knew about just the Primo seems to have Learned about when i come to America Josephina will be my he 23
