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...boss. For the first time in 60 fights, he was doing his own managing, signing papers, paying bills. At 32, Joe Louis was a bit past his fighting prime but he had his strategy figured out: "If I boff him, Billy loses his head. When he loses his head, I got him." The fight odds were 13-to-5 in Louis' favor and never wavered when a millionaire Texas oilman bet $300,000 on Challenger Conn. The gamblers had seen Billy, the dancing master, outbox Joe for twelve rounds back in 1941, then fall from one murderous punch...
...headlines (such as its 1929 crash flash, WALL STREET LAYS AN EGG, and its STIX Nix Hix Fix, when bucolic cinemas' flopped in the hinterland) have attained a kind of backstage immortality. So have flopperoo, push over, palooka, scram, to click; and such trade phrases as "boff" (a variation of sock or punch) for smash hit, "preem," as a verb meaning to stage a premi...
This is not Cabot's first appearance as an actor. In the 1921 Pudding Show "Wetward Ho," he played the part of William Boff. F. E. Parker Jr. '18, commenting on his ability as an actor, said: "Flo Ziegfeld would dearly love to draw such a recruit to put new zest into his annual Follies...