Word: boxers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boxer, Rocky Graziano is a joke, but he has the top two requisites to ring fame & fortune - a paralyzing punch, an iron jaw. His 155 lbs. ace mounted on a sturdy pair of legs that would never per form fancy ring steps. He mauls in on an opponent, wide-legged, carrying his left dangerously low; but he punches fast, savagely, substituting power and speed for a better boxer's polished skill...
...Senate ex-Rhodes Scholar James William Fulbright of Arkansas suggested a two-way traffic in education. Said he last week :"I just started to thinking one day . . . [how] friendship between China and ourselves was greatly influenced by the Boxer Rebellion." The indemnity China paid to the U.S. supported a similar plan, sent many Chinese on scholarships to the U.S. "The result," says Fulbright, ". . . was to make them actually feel that we were civilized . . . and interested in their welfare. That kind of feeling is fundamental to not having war every 20 years...
There were a couple of seagoing prep-school boys, Al, an amateur boxer whose short upper lip made Sculptor Slobodkin distrust him, and Mush, who was unpleasantly popeyed. There was Georgia Boy, a snake-hipped harmonica player and dancer, who used to talk nostalgically about his "mammy." And there was Joe, whose father was a Yorkshireman, whose mother was a French Tahitian and whose English was a splendid massacre. Joe once referred to the "United Steaks Conscience, Washington, Disease" which, translated, turned out to be the United States Congress, Washington, D.C. Sometimes he would dream about his abandoned South...
Married. Emily ("Micky") Hahn, 40, freethinking, cigar-smoking, best-selling authoress (Seductio ad Absurdum, China to Me); and Major Charles Boxer, 41, Britain's Hong Kong intelligence chief in 1941 and war-long Jap captive, father of Emily's four-year-old daughter Carola; she for the first time,* he for the second; in New Haven, Conn. Said Bride Emily: "I believe in the law, marriage and monogyny. . . . Every child needs a father who is at home. If Charles had died in prison camp I would have married some one else...
...school-teaching. Three principals in a row were harried out of town by the unruly students. The clerk of Adams township asked for somebody who could use his two hands as well as the three Rs. He got a stocky, lyo-lb. college boxer named Frederick Albert Jeffers...