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January 2nd, 1972: Men in tuxedos rob the Pierre, a New York hotel. They get away with $11 million worth of cash and jewelry. The police are baffled by how large-scale a heist could go off so smoothly. The answer was in the leader of the thieves, a man by the name of Bobby Comfort.
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Ira Berkow (born January 7, 1940) is an American sports reporter, columnist, and writer. He shared the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, which was awarded to the staff of The New York Times for their series How Race Is Lived in America.
Sep 22, 2020 · UPDATED: September 23, 2020 at 9:46 p.m. Many years ago, Ira Berkow was sitting on an airplane. Next to him was Muhammad Ali. They were about to head to Chicago and … well, let Berkow tell the...
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Jun 4, 2024 · Young Ira Berkow was a fan of Zale, the dethroned middleweight champion from Gary, Indiana. The heartbreak caused by the loss would become the future Pulitzer Prize winner's first boxing memory. In a phone interview with The Jewish Boxing Blog , Berkow was quick to boast that Zale took two out three against Graziano.
Aug 14, 1987 · In the pre-dawn hours of January 2, 1972, a group of men wearing tuxedoes robbed the Pierre, an elegant New York hotel, of several million dollars worth of jewelry and cash. The leader of this daring heist was life-long thief Bobby Comfort and this book is largely his story as told to Berkow.
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Berkow, though, knew Koufax well from his days as a Pulitzer Prize winning sports columnist for the New York Times. He made his pitch to the Hall of Famer. “I wrote him a letter that said, ‘I feel this film is going to be for posterity,” Berkow said.
