Word: battler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Battler v. the Kid. Having no power outside the authority to allot certain star subsidies, Malraux set out to rehabilitate the French theater. At the Comédie Française, he complained, standards had fallen so low that there were only six performances of Racine to 113 of a couple of frothy farces by a 19th century playwright, Eugene Labiche. "Let us have Labiche," said Malraux tolerantly, "but not at the expense of Racine." From then on, as Paris-Presse put it, the lines were drawn between " 'Kid' Labiche v. 'Battling' Racine." Malraux snatched...
...bell, Fullmer began to show a bewildering set of new tactics: in business as a Pier Six battler, he had turned Fancy Dan. Instead of ducking his head and plowing in, Fullmer danced tantalizingly beyond the reach of Basilio's deadly left hook. When Basilio swung, Fullmer countered with deft precision. When Basilio crowded him into a corner, Fullmer calmly retreated into a cocoon of arms and shoulders, then emerged to give better than he got. When Basilio clinched, Fullmer wrestled him about as he pleased and tossed in an occasional elbow for old time's sake...
...were slipping from a record $394 million in 1956 to $378 million. He began buying up stock, asked to get on the Crane board, but was turned down. As Crane sales dropped to $336 million in 1958, Evans decided that the time was ripe to move, called in Proxy-Battler Alfons Landa, boss of Penn-Texas Corp., to help...
...fans were satisfied, Archie was disappointed. A knockout would have given the old battler a lifetime total of 127 K.O.s, would have made him boxing's undisputed K.O. champ. It is a title he deserves. Young Stribling, a heavyweight who also claimed 126 knockouts, swelled his total by touring tank towns in the '20a and flattening the local champions. Archie has taken on all comers at all weights, from Europe to Australia...
...Worlds. Thomas' TV self is Danny Williams, nightclub funnyman, father of two and harassed battler for his patriarchal rights. Says Thomas candidly: "The show is one cliche after another. Family life is that way. When we're corny, we don't let it get too far. We use what I call treacle cutters. For instance, the boy gets sore and runs away from home and tries to enroll himself in the orphan asylum as Elvis Earp. I find him and I take him in my arms and we make up and we talk about...