Word: boxer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other winners last week: CJ Sandy Saddler, 22, a willowy, broomstick-legged Negro, ended Willie Pep's six-year reign as featherweight boxing champion. Saddler, more of a puncher than a boxer, began by bloodying Pep's nose, put him on the floor twice before knocking him out in the fourth round at Madison Square Garden...
Born. To Emily Hahn ("Micky") Boxer, 43, best-selling authoress (The Soong Sisters, China To Me), and Major Charles Boxer, 44, Britain's Hong Kong intelligence chief in 1941, now a professor of Portuguese literature at King's College, University of London: their second child, a girl (their first, Carola, according to Author Hahn, was born illegitimately in 1941); in Manhattan. Name: Amanda. Weight...
Married. Freddie Mills, 29, British boxer, light heavyweight champion of the world since he defeated New Jersey's Gus Lesnevich last July; and Chrissie Broadribb, 36, his manager's daughter; he for the first time, she for the second; in London...
...first full season (1933) he smashed the Pacific Coast League record by hitting safely in 61 consecutive games. He struck up a friendship with the team's first baseman, a fancy dresser and wisecracker, aped his dress and manners. From the Seals' trainer, an oldtime featherweight boxer, he soaked up fancy words. For a while, his stock reply to anyone asking him where he had been was: "Oh, I've been nonchalantly meandering down the pike...
Last winter Colonel James Coward, Air Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Bagdad, took off from Frankfurt in a C-47 to fly back to his post. Aboard were three crew members and two boxer dogs that Coward had bought. Coward wanted to refuel in Athens, but the field was fogged in. Istanbul and Ankara, when he approached, were also fogged in. His gas gone, he set the plane's automatic pilot and bailed out with his crew. Lacking parachutes for the dogs, he left them in the plane...