Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bobbed and weaved, grimaced and grunted, swung his hard fists in & out, up & down. Hammering Henry Armstrong looked like old Perpetual Motion himself. But he was not. He was a sluggish, weary old man of 30, plagiarizing his youth. Lithe, 23-year-old Negro Ray Robinson knew it, and held back for ten shadowy, monotonous, one-sided rounds. The customers also knew it and lustily booed the kind of drama they did not come...
Fifteen thousand fans had paid over $60,000 to see Henry Armstrong because he had once been a pugilistic blitzkrieg. The flat-faced little boxer was the only fighter ever to hold three titles simultaneously-feather, light and welterweight. For five years it was a near certainty that chocolate-colored Henry Armstrong's opponents would eventually crumble before the inhuman, tireless onslaught of will and pounding fists. Last week at Madison Square Garden, the Armstrong repertory of lethal motions was on display, but the crucial Armstrong hammer was no longer part of the equipment. If it had not been...
Said Acting Chairman James Armstrong of the Alexandria board: "Very interesting...
...book giving serious arguments for a system of simple English as a common language among all nations has been put out by Ivor Armstrong Richards, head of Harvard's Commission on English Language Studies. Basic English and Its Uses (Norton; $2) says that the greatest number of arguments against this simple language do not commonly come from persons fearing Anglo-Saxon expansion but from supporters of languages that are not natural, such as Esperanto...
...will be down from the Lawrence Hofbran for an afternoon jam session in the Lowell House dining hall, Saturday, August 14, from 2 to 5 o'clock. The band's young drummer, William Hines, has been replaced by the great veteran, Kaiser Marshall, who once played with Louis Armstrong and Fletcher Henderson, and who was in Wild Bill Davison's great mixed band at the Ken last spring. The other members of the group are Mezz Mazzrow (clarinet); George Lugg (trombone); Jack Butler (trumpet), who once played with the Hot Club of France; Jack Bland (guiter), who was a member...