In 35 years of hobnobbing with fight managers and lesser figures of the pugilistic trade, Sports Editor Dan Parker of the N.Y. Daily Mirror has developed a fine ear for Manhattan's ringside speech and idiom. This week, in his column, Parker gave a health report on Armand Weill, manager of Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano, as told by "Al" Weill himself.
"My blood pressure is poifick. It was 150 vitriolic and 98 diabolic . . . The doctor . . . said I had a coupla minor ailments and I says, 'That's funny. I never woiked in the mines ... So he told...
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