Word: boxers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boxer Nova, now playing the part of a gangster in a Manhattan revival of Guys and Dolls, took umbrage at Flaherty's column. "When I read this article," said he, "I was completely sick. My friends were aghast . . . Since the article [appeared], doors have been closed in my face." Nova threw a counterpunch at Flaherty; he filed a $200,000 libel suit against him and the Hearst Publishing...
...watch him stand before the mirror in his shorts, dance around like a boxer with his fists cocked and muscles flexed. He would pull in his stomach and examine his physique from every angle. Mother and us girls would almost die restraining our laughter. I don't think he ever knew we were looking...
Noah Brusso), 73, onetime (1906-08) heavyweight boxing champion of the world; of a heart attack; in Vancouver, B.C. The only Canadian and the shortest boxer (5 ft. 7 in., 179 Ibs.) ever to wear the heavyweight crown, Ontario-born Tommy was soundly beaten by Jack Johnson, fought only sporadically thereafter, became an ordained minister, once advised newlyweds: "The first few rounds are easy in prize fighting and in matrimony. It's staying power that counts...
...Pelot Summerall, 88, onetime (1926-31) Army Chief of Staff, and president (1931-53) of The Citadel, a military college of South Carolina; in Washington's Walter Reed Hospital. West Pointer Summerall. commissioned in 1892, commanded an artillery platoon in the storming of Peking in 1900 during the Boxer Rebellion. Armed with his famed credo. "Artillery exists only to protect and support the infantry," he commanded the ist Division and later the V Army Corps in France in World War I, was credited with achieving artillery effects without precedent in U.S. military history...
...Philadelphia pepper pot of stories about the Main Line's celebrated Biddies. Most of the book is about her father. Colonel Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, a punch-and-judo-throwing millionaire who led fully as strenuous a life as his good friend Teddy Roosevelt. As an amateur boxer, the bald, spike-mustached aristocrat fought under the name of "Tim O'Biddle." The great Ruby Bob Fitzsimmons called him one of the best amateur fighters he ever saw. In 1908 he went four roughhouse rounds with Philadelphia Jack O'Brien. About that time, Biddle took over a Bible...