Word: billygoat
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...smart-money boys only snickered. When Paddy climbed into the Madison Square Garden ring with Carter last week they were betting 4 to 1 that he was still a billygoat from Brooklyn, a clumsy, light-punching brawler who had won a couple of big fights by butting, bunny-hugging and hitting on the breaks. Champion Carter, a Negro from The Bronx, was an old pro, too good, and too smart to be taken when his title was on the line...
...with Correspondent Randolph Churchill (TIME, Sept. 4), it was the end of a two-week convalescence. Until he was hit by a mortar burst, hardworking, chance-taking Frank Emery had been up front almost continuously. So had Photographer Charles Rosecrans. A dark, wiry little man who usually sported a billygoat beard, 30-year-old Charlie Rosecrans-had covered World War II in the Pacific almost from start to finish, was in Tokyo when a new war sent him to Korea. The third I.N.S. man was young (22), eager Ken Inouye, New York-born son of a Japanese consular official...