Word: boxer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arthur Szyk (pronounced Shik), 52, has been tackling big projects, usually in a small way, since he was six. In his home town of Lodz, Poland, his first subject was a series of drawings of the Boxer Rebellion. His father, a wealthy textile manufacturer, packed Szyk off to Paris at 15 to study art, and - when Szyk paintings began getting smaller & smaller -sent him on to Asia Minor to find out how the Mohammedans did their miniatures. Since World War I (in which he served with the Russians), Szyk's studious talent for the tiny has made him tops...
Died. Dr. William Henry Joseph Walker, 67, pudgy elder brother of New York City's ex-Mayor Jimmie Walker, who as physician for the New York State Athletic Commission listened to the heartbeat of every big-time boxer in the last quarter century; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan...
Fighting Trim. In Honolulu, lightweight Boxer Richie Shinn weighed in, found himself over the 133-lb. limit, removed his upper plate, ran around the block, came...
...Perone, former New England featherweight champ, who has lived in Iturbi's Beverly Hills mansion for six months. Iturbi employs him as coffee-pourer and sparring partner, and rewards him with singing lessons. Although Perone was wounded at Salerno by a bayonet that pierced his stomach, Amateur Boxer Iturbi has persuaded Perone to return to the ring. Perone will make the great sacrifice next month against a local fighter selected by Iturbi. He would much rather sing...
Died. John Arthur ("Jack") Johnson, 68, first Negro heavyweight champion of the world (1908-15); of auto-accident in juries; near Franklinton, N.C., Texas-born, "Li'l Artha" fought for a living (and a high one) for 29 years. A fine defensive boxer, Johnson won his title from Canadian Tommy Burns in 1908, lost it to Jess Willard in 1915, precariously passed the latter years of his life on the ragged edge of show business...