Word: boxer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lamar was no mean boxer when he came to the College as official coach of the newly established boxing team in 1931. Coming from the University of Virginia, he twice won the heavyweight title of the National A.A.U...
...relaxed that he sometimes gives the impression of being made of sponge rubber with a core of Seconal. His eye is soft, his movements languid, his voice soothing. He views the world as being peopled exclusively by "nice guys." Once he applied that label to a famed middleweight boxer he had met. A friend pointed out that the pug had recently gone to jail for kicking his pregnant wife in the abdomen. Perry looked momentarily unhappy, then suggested: "Maybe it was a case of mistaken identity...
...broke into the French movies, where he became a smash in American tough-guy roles. In a remarkable bit of legerdemain, he transferred his popular film personality to his singing style, mixing toughness and sentiment. Onstage he wears a sharply cut suit and sings (in passable French) from a boxer's stance in a wide-open baritone. "I'm just about everything Europeans instinctively admire about Americans," he admits...
Died. Brigadier General John McAuley Palmer, 85, veteran of the Boxer Rebellion, assistant chief of staff for operations of the American Expeditionary Force in World War I, adviser in the office of the chief of staff during World War II, oldest officer on active duty at his retirement in 1946, military historian (Statesmanship or War); in Washington...
Sales Approach. In Memphis, a housewife placed an ad in the classified section of the Press-Scimitar: "BOXER PUPS-My husband's $75 dogs for $50 and less; if a man answers, please hang...