Word: bout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cavalcade of Sports (Fri. 10 p.m. NBC). Ralph "Tiger" Jones v. Wilf Greaves, in ten-round middleweight bout...
...crudity of the Czar's bureaucrats might be less evil than a regime speaking in the name of brotherly love. Herzen's shrewd mind took the slogans of Europe's libertarian movement and arrived at the wisdom of the American Negro spiritual-"Everybody talkin' 'bout heaven-ain't goin' there...
What sort of people become carnies? Usually, says Krassowski, carnies are the children or the relatives of carnies. Others achieve the status by accident. In one town a local carpenter challenged a sideshow wrestler to a bout; when he won, he decided to join the carnival for good. In another town a local auto mechanic was called in to help fix a Ferris wheel, and just never left. A college zoologist worked at a carnival one summer, resigned his job at the college, now runs a snake show. A California social worker is now reading palms in a "mitt camp...
Almost as if the promoters could not quite count on their fighters, the show started long before the bout. Ringside sportswriters were asked to turn out in formal clothes, and many of them went along with the gag. The aisles were thick with red carpeting, as if Governor General Vincent Massey himself was about to grace some extraordinary state affair. But when the houselights darkened and spotlights shone on the home-team dugout, the only notable to appear was James J. Parker, proud in a blue silk robe trimmed with white. He marched to the ring, wary-eyed and handsome...
...popping of a cork or the inadvertent sign of simple happiness. Daddy, not unnaturally, has taken to popping corks, and brother Joe has married a woman as unlike his mother as the countryside can offer. In rapid succession, the father dies of a stroke after a drinking bout, Joe's lovable wife dies of TB after bearing two children, and Joe steps out to the barn and puts a bullet through his brain. Ella, a younger sister and her mother have moved to a nearby small town and taken Joe's infant sons with them. But tragedy...