Word: baer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ezzard ring as his lackluster leather-thrower was being proclaimed the new heavyweight cham pion of the world (National Boxing Asso ciation version, not good in New York or London). It was enough to make fans sigh even for the half-good old days of Primo Carneca and Max Baer...
Louis likes his sleep, eight or nine hours of it, but he can do with four, "if I lay on my back." He once read that Heavyweight Max Baer recommended sleeping that way, earnestly agrees that "it's the only kind of sleep that eases you off." The first thing he does on arising is to turn on two or three radios, one in each room, and they stay on all day. Louis doesn't care what the program is ("I can get something out of any of them"). Apparently, sweet, slurred stuff is just as acceptable...
...Baer, short-time heavyweight champion (1934-35), was sued by a motorist who had annoyed him. The motorist, who had honked his horn at Baer, charged that Baer had shown his annoyance by poking him in the face. Damages demanded: $50,000 (for the motorist), another $50,000 (for his wife, who was "frightened"), and $20,000 (for his daughter, who was also frightened...
...bourgeois compromises. It has added a horserace handicapper, a crossword puzzle, a gossip columnist, and comic strips-The Nebbs, Gene Byrnes's Reg'lar Fellers, and Gluyas Williams' gentle panels on suburbia. But last week it was having trouble keeping its comics. Writers Stanley and Betsy Baer said they did not want their Nebbs in Communist company, and the Worker let them go. Then Artist Byrnes said he wanted to withdraw his strip. The Worker said no. It would not cancel its contract with the Bell Syndicate. Byrnes threatened to fill the strip with anti-Communist digs...
WALTER D. BAER...