Word: bout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shortly before the Cohen bout, Bangkok fight fans took in some home-style boxing in Rajadamnern Stadium, and found it more to their taste. Before a typical bout a pair of lithe welterweights, Sriswasdi Thiamprasidth and Kaeh Chomsrimesk, bowed gracefully to the crowd, knelt on the canvas for prayers to Buddha, and warmed up with a graceful, slow-motion dance. Then the gong sounded for the first round, an energetic four-piece band swung into a tune that sounded like an old-fashioned American carnival hootchy-kootchy, and the fighters started dancing in earnest...
Some Thai fighters get so expert at their special form of assault and battery that they run out of opponents. Often, to keep busy they try western-style boxing on the side (Chamroen, Robert Cohen's opponent in last week's western-style bout, is also his country's featherweight, bantamweight and lightweight champion, Thai style). But without their music, forbidden to use their feet, forced to depend on their padded fists, most Thai fighters are hamstrung. Effete westerners, Thai fans agree, have ruined a fine, manly sport with foolish rules...
Last week, after a month's bout with virus pneumonia and a heart ailment, former U.S. Senator Blair Moody. 52, of Michigan, died suddenly in the University of Michigan hospital at Ann Arbor. A onetime Washington correspondent for the Detroit News, Democrat Moody was appointed to Arthur Vandenberg's seat by Governor G. Mennen Williams in 1951 and lost it to Republican Charles Potter in 1952. To millions of TViewers across the nation, he was remembered as one of the three rambunctious "Young Turks" (the others: Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. and "Soapy" Williams) at the 1952 Democratic Convention...
...streets of turn-of-the-century Baltimore. An only boy surrounded by five sisters, young Hamilton Murrell Webb did all the fighting for the family. He grew up with a bloody nose. By the time he was 14, he was tough enough to fight and win a four-round bout at the old Erica Athletic Club. He earned eight shiny half dollars, and from that night on he was a professional...
...Theodore Greene, 57, who started teaching at the Forman Christian College in what is now Pakistan, later joined the faculty of Princeton, and finally, after a severe bout with polio, was appointed professor of philosophy at Yale. Since then he has become one of the brightest ornaments of his campus-a courtly scholar who each day painfully makes his way to class and there becomes the eloquent defender of liberal education at its best. His oft-taught belief: "The objective reality of beauty and its concrete embodiments, of goodness and its impact on human life, of God and His relation...