Word: backe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...academic. The day after the Louis-Valentino exhibition, Manager Tex Sullivan withdrew his fighter, Lee Oma, from a scheduled ten-round match with Louis in Detroit. Complained Sullivan: "Those aren't exhibitions, they're real wars . . . Louis isn't planning a comeback, he's already back...
...Jane talk too much on the first few shows: "I've got to force myself to let a few minutes go by without saying anything, but a silence always makes me uneasy." As for radio, Ace says: "I don't think we'll ever go back to it-unless some silly sponsor wants to take a chance...
...bodies of Castile's ancient rulers are now back in their tombs, dressed this time in the white robes and black hoods of the Cistercians. Their clothes and accouterments, displayed in 18 glass cases, are open to the study of a few visitors, who enter the convent discreetly through a door that the nuns leave "unguarded." Sexton Garcia is pleased with the fruits of his nocturnal curiosity. Says he: "This museum should really bear my name...
...game of pick-up-sticks. What the U.S. entrants lacked in know-how they almost made up for in energy and imagination. Joseph Hirsch's Journey-an old man and a boy on a burro-looked as if it had been painted with mud from under the back stoop, and its only hint of Christmas was the sharp red of a couple of poinsettias in the boy's hand. But the red, contrasted with the dirty gloom of the rest of the picture, was enough; it made Journey one of the most moving canvases in the show. Edmund...
Imported Virus. Sitting at the back of the room as Henderson spoke were platinum-haired Clem Whitaker and his copper-haired business partner-wife, Leone Baxter, who were hired last February at $100,000 a year to give the medical profession's account of itself to the U.S. public. Whitaker & Baxter reported on what they had done since "the virus of socialized medicine had spread from decadent Europe and taken deep root here...