Word: armstrong
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowd had gone to see a prize fight. More than that, they had gone to cheer a gallant little Negro: spindle-shanked, kinky-haired Henry Armstrong. Two years ago, at 25, Henry Armstrong held three world's championships (featherweight, lightweight, welterweight), a feat unmatched by any other fisticuffer, white or black. He renounced his featherweight title, lost his lightweight crown to Lou Ambers. Then, last October, after defending his welterweight championship 19 times, the little tornado, whose gameness and stamina made him one of the most extraordinary fighters of all time, lost the last of his crowns to Fritzie...
Last week little Henry faced Zivic again, in a do-or-die attempt to win back the welterweight title. Armstrong had just received the Neil Memorial Trophy, annually awarded to the most praiseworthy fighter of the year. He will take Zivic this time, fight fans figured, now that surgeons have removed the bothersome scar tissue from around his eyes. But before the first round was over, the crowd realized how wrong they were. Instead of his customary windmill attack, Armstrong tried to box, scarcely landed a blow. In awesome silence they watched round after round. The tiny dynamo, after...
Then suddenly the fans rose to their feet in a roaring mass. As if some unseen transformer had hooked on a new supply of power, Armstrong was the dynamo of days gone by. His little fists smashed Zivic with savage fury. It was a superhuman rally, one its witnesses will never forget. But it was too late. After 52 seconds of the 12th round, Referee Arthur Donovan stopped the fight. Three times (after the eighth, ninth and tenth rounds) he had peered anxiously at Armstrong's wounds. His eleventh-round warning-"Just one more round, Henry"-had spurred...
...Eddie Sauter on the reverse, Benny Rides Again. On the latter, Sauter ignores any conventional form and just lets his mood carry him away--with the help of the band (COLUMBIA). . . George Avakian, of Yale and Columbia Records, recently had the good fortune to discover some previously unissued Louis Armstrong sides, which COLUMbia has just released. Most interesting is Ory's Creole Trombone, a good example of the old New Orleans parade style . . . Another COLUMBIA reissue that should be on your list is Benny Goodman's 1934 Moonglow, featuring Jack and Charlie Teagarden, Teddy Wilson, and Benny himself...
This month, when the National Association of Manufacturers gathered for its annual Congress in Manhattan, its outgoing president, Henning W. Prentis Jr., of Armstrong Cork, bespoke the general uncertainty when he asked the Government to define the businessman's new role. A few at that Congress already understood that the best deal they could make with the Revolution was as men of skill and money, not of power. They sensed that their role in it was simply to make money-hard, sterile money, but money to which the world's only remnants of freedom were still attached...