Word: boxer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ford, who thought the best government was that which governed the least, bitterly fought all the New Deal's works as well as the unions. His bodyguard and aide, Harry Bennett, onetime boxer who had become a top power in the company, was the man who barred the doors. But it was Ford himself who was responsible for the union-busting as his veteran secretary, Ernest Liebold, made clear in a tape recording for the archives: "Nobody was doing anything around Dearborn . . . that Mr. Ford didn't agree with 100%." In 1941, when the C.I.O. had ringed...
...first of ten brutal knockdowns in less than five minutes of fighting. By the time Collins' seconds had climbed into the ring and forced reluctant Referee Tommy Rawson to stop the fight in the fourth round, 24-year-old Boxer Collins was a rubbery-legged, bloody-faced wreck of a man who had to be carried to his corner. Even Announcer Jimmy Powers, speaking for the sponsor, Gillette Safety Razor, murmured that "it was incredible that they...
...under way. ¶ln Manhattan, after losing the first game of the playoff, the Minneapolis Lakers whipped the New York Knickerbockers four straight for the National Basketball Association championship the fourth Laker title in five years iln Pocatello, the Idaho State boxing team, with the aid of its Olympic boxer, Ellsworth ("Spider") Webb, won the N.C.A.A. title from Wisconsin, 25-19 ¶ At Bowie, Md., in a Kentucky Derby preview-with Alfred Vanderbilt's Native Dancer absent-Eugene Constantin Jr's Royal Bay Gem charged up from dead last at the halfway mark...
Bizarre cases of cataplexy rounded up by Dr. Levin: ¶A man who had attacks if he tried to scare a cat away, swat a fly, squash a bug or land a fish. ¶A boxer who had his opponent on the ropes, but could not bring himself to deliver the finishing punch. ¶Tennis players who, in the middle of a volley, drop the racket and either go limp in the arm or fall down...
Charles Pierce ("Chuck") Davey is well educated (an M.A. in education from Michigan State), well built (147 Ibs., 5 ft. 8½ in.), and he was well ballyhooed as an up & coming boxer. Turning pro in 1949, he fought 39 straight fights without a loss. Kid Gavilan, born about the same time as Davey, was educated in the sugar-cane fields of Camaguey, Cuba, where he developed a sleekly muscled body (146 Ibs., 5 ft. 10 in.) and a demonstrated ability to take care of himself with his fists (105 pro fights since...