Word: boxers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Allen, Judy Holliday and France's top pantomimist Jacques Tati, who played the Chaplinesque lead in the movie Mr. Hulot's Holiday (TIME, July 5). Tati was the hit of the show in a brief series of vignettes (a determined tennis player, a fumbling fisherman, a cowardly boxer, a prancing circus horse and rider) that showed off a remarkably agile and expressive 6-ft. 4-in. body. The week's second big color feature, Cole Porter's Panama Hattie (CBS), boasted Ethel Merman, but even Trouper Merman could not keep the show from becoming a busy...
...with 16½ faults. Third: the U.S. team, which had won the cup for four years running, with 24 faults. ¶ In Texas, where interracial prizefights are prohibited on the theory that they might start race riots, a Court of Civil Appeals ruled against the state, agreed with Negro Boxer I. H. ("Sporty") Harvey that the 14th Amendment guarantees him the right to occasional bouts with his white brothers. ¶ In Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, the New York Knickerbockers got the professional basketball season off to a fast and early start. The deft passing of Dick McGuire...
...Queensberry drafted his twelve immortal rules and turned "barbarous pugilism" into a gentlemanly sport. The Marquis outlawed such unsporting features as wrestling, hugging and shoes with springs. Last week the Indiana State Athletic Commission added a new refinement to boxing (and wrestling, too). Henceforth, announced the commission, no boxer or wrestler may perform in the state without first swearing that he is not now and never has been a Communist...
...Piece of the Kid. New York City's Daily Mirror Columnist Dan Parker had a deceptively complicated explanation. Saxton had been a promising amateur boxer, Parker remembered, but as a professional he had earned a shot at the title by knocking over a series of stumblebums. Now he was managed by Blinky Palermo, a Philadelphia hoodlum unable to get a license in New York. To make matters worse, Blinky was friendly with Frank Carbo, the underworld boss of boxing. And Carbo owned a piece of Kid Gavilan...
...hatchet-faced 39, Levine has simmered down some. "Don't call me angry," he says, with a thin smile. More important, Levine has steadily improved both as a painter and as an ovserver. In his words, he "used to be a puncher" and is now "a boxer...