Word: boxer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Finer Instincts. The Brooklyn-born daughter of an Anglo-Irish professional boxer and a Bavarian mother, Mae got onstage early and has seldom been off. As an "innocently brazen" moppet of seven years, she projected exclusively toward "the men and boys." At eleven, she was being flirtatious with vaudeville hoofers, and at 17, for the first and only time, Mae married. She told the lucky man, a vaudevillian named Frank Wallace, that she was not in love. "It's just this physical thing," explained Mae. "You don't move my finer instincts." Domestic life proved a bore...
...Siege at Peking, by Peter Fleming. A vivid re-creation of the Boxer Rebellion, when a thin, red line of 400 defended the foreign compounds at Peking from 25,000 screaming besiegers for 55 days...
...Call me a come-in fighter, a counterpuncher, an aggressive boxer. Call me anything you want," said Featherweight Champion Davey Moore, 25. "But if you really want to know what I am, I'm a street fighter, man, the best you ever...
Once, he admits, he was "Battling Nudie," but in those days, in his early teens, he was a boxer of small talents, fighting for as little as a dollar a bout. He learned the rudiments of tailoring in a cousin's shop, then headed West and worked as an extra in Wallace Reid pictures. "Every scene had to have a bunch of people in the background eating peanuts," he remembers. "I was hired as a peanut eater." When the peanuts palled, Nudie bummed his way back to Manhattan and went into Specialty Costumes ("What that means is that...
...most of his headlines by proving that anyone who claimed such magic was a fake. While he tilted with the table rappers and spook producers, he continued to produce new stunts for the stage. He was still at it in the fall of 1926, when he let a college boxer test his vaunted toughness by punching him in the belly. Less than ten days later, Harry Houdini, 52, was dead of a ruptured appendix. His grave, in Brooklyn's Machpelah cemetery, writes Gresham, is marked by a marble bust of the great escapist. "It is an elaborate tribute...