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...heavyweights, heavy-footed Rex Layne (No. 3) and light-punching Roland LaStarza (No. 4), fought it out for the privilege of meeting Champion Rocky Marciano or Jersey Joe Walcott next summer. LaStarza, who lost a split decision to Marciano three years ago, won a split decision in a slam-banger over Layne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Feb. 23, 1953 | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

DICK SAVITT, 24, the U.S.'s Australian champion, a dogged slam-banger who has come far in the past year, but has also lost to Drobny six times out of seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wide Open Wimbledon | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

...Banger-New York Trek...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Nab 'Beached Sailor' On Alcoholic Charity Drive | 4/10/1948 | See Source »

...banger-apple polisher...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Leatherneck Lingo | 7/19/1943 | See Source »

...track tout, who refers to himself as a "ducat hustler." From Muggsy and associated sources, the scripters found to their dismay that in 1941's "jellybean jargon" a country boy was no longer a yokel, but a "loose tooth"; a dollar, no longer a buck, had become a "banger"; "cooking with gas" meant perfect understanding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jan. 12, 1942 | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

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