Word: boxer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This was the kind of solid fighting the fans wanted, the kind that conscientious Commissioner Eagan, himself a famed amateur boxer, used to provide in younger days...
...boys who got this straight talk from New York's new Boxing Administrator Eddie Eagan (TIME, Jan. 22) was the world's featherweight champion, Willie Pep. A master boxer with a featherweight punch, he had been dubbed "BackPedaling Bill" by the fans. But in last week's 15-round championship battle with Bronx Phil Terranova, Hartford's nimble 124-lb. Willie put on the fighting-est show of his career...
Rodriguez, onetime cab driver and amateur boxer from Neptune, N.J. and now a military policeman, is famous in the Army. At his first station 200 soldiers signed a petition to the C.O. to billet Rodriguez alone. "I guess I have had more shoes thrown at me than any man in the Army," Rodriguez recalls with mixed sadness and pride. "Even when we went out for battle drill and all dug foxholes together to sleep in, it was the old story. When I woke in the morning everybody else had got out and dug themselves another foxhole...
Then, savagely, the full force of the German blow was unleashed. Its suddenness, its underrated force, sent the Americans reeling like a boxer who has taken a terrific punch to the solar plexus. The Germans followed through, hoping to corner the Americans, to knock out the U.S. First Army...
...wish," concludes Emily, "to say good-naturedly that I have suffered a lot, and I often wonder in what cause." But unabashed Emily, now living in New York with her daughter, was making postwar plans to return to Major Boxer, who, she reports, plans to marry her as soon as he wins freedom from: 1) a Jap prison camp; 2) his wife...