Word: boxer
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...thing for a hockey player to pose for collar ads, for a baseball manager to turn banker, for a track star to get elected to Congress-or even for an ex-boxer to take up 32 lines in Who's Who. But when a rodeo cowboy drifts into town in his own $11,500 airplane, passes up the saloons and heads instead for Howard Johnson's-"because I like the ice cream"-well, respectability has crossed the last frontier...
...physical evidence at the 1956 trial, Fulton County Prosecutor Blaine Ramsey presented a pair of "bloodstained" underpants that police had found one mile from the scene of the crime. The judge refused to let defense chemists analyze the pants, nor did Miller try them on. Miller usually wore boxer-type shorts; these were jockey type, and looked too small for Miller. But with those shorts, Miller's confession and his girl friend's testimony, Ramsey won the case hands down...
...past seven years, Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. has fought 28 of the best-publicized fights in boxing history. Some of his victims were stiffs, but most of them were decidedly more skilled than Clay's critics would admit. Nobody today denies that he is a superb boxer, but Clay himself beclouded that fact long ago in a great golden haze of self-generated mythology about his life outside the ropes-his ridiculous, irreverent verses, his portentous prophecies, his jazzy clothes, his religion, his wife, the draft board that he dodges as agilely as he ducks a left...
...heard the unmistakable sound of trousers splitting beneath his tails. With a laugh, he flew through the rest of his act, but next day decided to take steps. He trotted over to Saks Fifth Avenue, asked the rather elegant salesman for one pair of men's nylon tricot boxer shorts, pure black. The clerk blanched, then to his own amazement discovered that the store did indeed have one pair of black nylon shorts. "Do you mind, sir, if I ask, why black?" he said. Stiffening, Ray mugged: "I, sir, am in mourning...
Eerie Fanaticism. The earliest foot age, shot in 1900 by Professional Traveler Burton Holmes, contains a profusion of reminiscent vignettes: U.S. occupation troops play broomstick polo in Peking during the Boxer Rebellion; a throne-room sequence shows the last Manchu ruler, the depraved Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi. There are shots of Sun Yat-sen's founding of the Kuomintang, and of his 1925 funeral; and there is a portrait of 33-year-old Mao the next year, already glowing eerily with fanaticism. The impressive wedding ceremony of Sun's Wellesley-trained sister-in-law to his heir, Chiang...