Word: arounders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...small ceremony (there was a little trouble arranging for the church, since it was her second marriage and his fourth). Sonja was a few minutes late because of some last-minute fussing with her costume, a frilly, off-the shoulder affair of blue net and lace costing around $500-not including, of course, the halo hat of bogus egret feathers, blue lace gloves ("to take the place of sleeves"), a pearl and diamond necklace, diamond bracelet, diamond earrings, and an armful of peach-colored orchids and maidenhair fern. The bride cried some during the ceremony, but cheered up later over...
...first part of Artie's experiment worked. A record-breaking crowd, including a good many of the jammy jitterbug type which apparently hides under logs in the daytime, was lured into Boston's huge Symphony Ballroom. The Shaw faithful, plus a few horn-rimmed jazz intellectuals, clustered around the bandstand, stood through it all without moving much but their gum-chewing muscles. Right there, any resemblance to success stopped...
When Artie's boys began unraveling Ravel's Piece en Forme de Habanera, the crowd around the bandstand applauded politely, but even the most ardent jitterers had to stop dancing. Cried one in petulant exasperation: "Artie, you stink...
There it ended, with Referee Ruby Goldstein rushing in to throw his arms around helpless Fusari and save him from further mayhem, just 56 seconds before the fight was scheduled to end. In his dressing room, triumphant Rocky climbed upon a table the better to see and be seen by the mob of reporters and photographers that crowded around. Crowed Rocky, waving a hand for silence: "Don't I do a job on those welterweights? . . . especially salamis from Jersey, who are my special meat...
...week, Citation's once-fevered ankle was ice cold and sound as a dollar. The trouble was that during his long wait on the shelf, Citation had developed a brood mare's belly, the neck of a bull and a rump like the back of a taxicab. Around the barn, the standing joke is that the "big horse" must have been eating from the same trough with Jake Hizar, the fat (264-lb.) foreman. To pare Citation down to racing weight, Ben Jones is giving him a double dose of work-one gallop at 6 a.m. and another...