Word: boxers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suppose you might call Flesh and Fury a message movie. It is all about deafness, sympathy, greed, etc., and every line is loaded--ready to go off in the direction of some great truth. Tony Curtis, as "Dummy" Callan--a deaf boxer who regains his hearing only to lose it again--sums up the moral in one sentence: "I don't feel different." That is the great truth then: deaf people are not sub-human after...
...Judge Joseph Sims paced to & fro, his eye kept turning to the Doberman, Champion Rancho Dobe's Storm. Earlier, in the tense semifinal of the group judging, Storm had beaten the defending champion boxer, Bang Away of Sirrah Crest. Standing still as a statue, the Doberman moved only his head. He was keeping an eye on the judge. After only 15 minutes, one of the shortest final deliberations in Westminster records, Judge Sims gave the Doberman the nod. Storm promptly jumped up & down and pawed and licked his handler-just as if he knew he had won. Owner...
Homework. In Los Angeles, Boxer Alfonso ("Apples") Arenas' bride of five months sued him for divorce, tearfully explained to the court that she could no longer take being used as his sparring partner...
Unknown Quality. In Milwaukee, when asked how she liked U.S. men, the wife of French Boxer Robert Villemain murmured: "I do not know. I am married...
Parson Richards has not always relied on the Lord so strongly. In his sermons he recalls his boyhood in Champaign, Ill., when he wanted to become a boxer, loved violence and "was headed for juvenile delinquency." Luckily for him and the U.S. Olympic team, at 16 he fell for a girl who "wanted a Christian boy friend." After he was named second-team all-state quarterback and steered Champaign High School to the Illinois football championship, he spent 2½ years at Bridgewater College, a Church of the Brethren school in Virginia. Ordained a Brethren minister...