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Monster Carnera has partially absorbed his manager's point of view. No longer a placidly exaggerated cement-mixer or a down-at-heel and hungry wrestler, he has grown proud of his monstrosity, now regards his own size as the proper one and smiles at the deficiencies of normal-sized persons.* In the ring, he grunts loudly and grimaces, dances lightly on his great feet, lunges quickly with his fists. Out of the ring he dresses in loose, bright-colored clothes, snorts and smiles down at the jabbering crowd which always follows him. Immune to fear, ennui, embarrassment or surprise, he was not offended when boxing commissions suspended his activities in 33 States, nor humiliated when he was forbidden to dine with other guests in Atlantic City's smart Ambassador Hotel while attired in a green polo jersey. With the exception of his U. S. manager, handsome William ("Bill") Duffy, who was recently (TIME, June 29) catalogued as one of Manhattan's six foremost public enemies, all the members of Carnera's entourage are physically picayune. His boxing gloves, specially made for him, are heavy as those which ordinary heavyweights use for practice. The seat of his automobile, which once caught fire when he was driving it, is placed a foot farther back than customary. In repose. Carnera's face is pensive, almost presentable; it is shocking when he laughs or shouts. He speaks, when spoken to, in a guttural mixture of English and Italian, which almost amounts to a monstrous language of his own.
* Monster Carnera would be unable to smile at Orchestra Leader Paul Whiteman who once weighed 305 lb., is now reported to have reduced to 210. He would have been impudent if he had smiled at the late William Howard Taft who weighed 340 lb. while in the White House, later got down to 250. The Ringling Circus giantess Ima Whale weighs 630 lb. Heaviest monster in history was Daniel Lambert who weighed 739 lb., died in England in 1809. A monster less cheerful than Carnera is Mathias Sticz, 506 lb., who tried to kill himself at Budapest in 1929.