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Wednesday, July 22, 2020


This is not necessarily the best John Manning photo from my Dave Martin collection, but I had to include it because of Martin's superimposed hand written note.  Martin kept these on a good many of his models, and they described their favorite activities and, in some cases, the colleges they attended.  For John, he lists "judo, karate, weightlifting, boxing."  You will note that three of these involve fighting, and the fourth is a favorite jailhouse pastime.  Manning attended the "school of hard knocks,' so no college was listed, and he had more than a few scrapes with the law.

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  1. Il a vraiment une tête de gangsters
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    He really has a gangster face

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    1. I've been told that he did spend some time in jail, Albert, so you have a point.

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  2. You have to admit, his weapon is impressive. And was shaving one's bush done much back then?

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    1. It looks more trimmed than shaved to me, and no, it wasn't done much at all back then.

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  3. I don't know. I haven't really researched this guy. Most of what I know about him I learned from James at Men from Back Then.

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