Word: blackburn
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Kentucky-born Cliff Berryman went to Washington when he was 17, as a protege of Kentucky's Senator Joe Blackburn who had admired his youthful talent. Earning his living as patent office messenger, he got his art education "for 20? a week" by copying the political cartoons in Puck and Judge. He sold his first cartoon to the Washington Post in 1889, got a regular job there two years later. In 1907 he switched to the Star, where his daily front-page cartoon remained a Washington landmark until...
...stone church, on the streets of Chicago's Negro section, on the rooftops, hanging out the windows to see the funeral of black Jack Blackburn, trainer of Joe Louis, some 30,000 citizens hung on the ropes. The crowd on the streets shouted and sang hymns. Women were knocked over, children screamed. When the services were over and the casket came out, borne by pallbearers that included Soldier Joe Louis, Swingster Cab Calloway, Tapster Bill Robinson, the mob broke through the police lines to touch the casket for good luck. When the hearse finally moved off everybody was still...
Died. Charles Henry, 58, better known as Jack Blackburn, trainer of Joe Louis; of heart disease; in Chicago. Once one of the greatest defensive fighters in ring history, he lost only two out of 92 recorded fights. (His luck in fights outside the ring earned him the title of "the animated razor scar.") He took Joe Louis in hand when Louis was a ring newcomer, coached him through 20 of his 21 title defenses...
Coaches Stahl and Blackburn, Harvard's masculine Mata Haris, travelled to Ithaca Saturday to watch the next opponent in action against Syracuse...
Loyalty has also kept Joe in the ring. He wanted to quit three years ago, after he had his revenge on Max Schmeling for the humiliating licking the German gave him two years before. He didn't, because he felt he owed something to Roxborough, Black, Blackburn and Jacobs, the men who made him. But after the. Nova fight, with a uniform on his big, supple back, Joe may let the title go and be satisfied to defend his country...