Word: boxer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year ago Mrs. John T. McCullough was occupied mostly in being a Greenwich, Conn. housewife, bringing up her eight-year-old son, raising Boxer dogs, and when she had time, listening to good music. She subscribed, in fact, to a three-concert winter series to be given by the Greenwich Community Concert Association...
Died. Marcel Cerdan, 33, Algerian-born French boxer, former (1948-49) middleweight champion of the world; in a plane crash; in Sao Miguel, Azores (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Winnsboro, S.C., he had been the 75-lb. runt of an amateur boxing team. Sometimes, on trips with the team, he had to serve as mascot and second when there was no boxer on the other squad small enough, i.e., under 100 Ibs., for him to fight. After he moved to Seattle with his mother in 1945, Glisson filled in one night for a dishwasher in a short-order restaurant. He made so much noise that a customer, Horse Trainer Ralph King from nearby Longacres, asked the waitress who he was. Said the waitress: "He ought to be a jockey...
...make it up to the others, CBS has distributed a brochure on the stars' "mike mannerisms" that is jam-packed with nuggety information. Samples: Bing Crosby "always rehearses with his pipe clenched between his teeth, even when singing"; Robert Cummings "reads lines from a semi-crouch, like a boxer"; Joan Crawford is a "microphone-clutcher," while Barbara Stanwyck is a "shoe-taker-offer." Don Ameche (with Loretta Young and Fred MacMurray, he is tied for the record with 21 appearances) drinks a pint of milk before each show "as a sedative." Paul Muni once played his violin right...
...senator had a practical suggestion: why not let Finland use all future payments (about $400,000 a year) to send Finnish students to the U.S. and U.S. technicians to Finland? That was much like what the U.S. had done for China after the Boxer Rebellion. Last week, the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee said O.K., got the Smith resolution over its first congressional hurdle...