Word: boxing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fordham, once a football powerhouse in the East (its line was called "the Seven Blocks of Granite"), abandoned intercollegiate football after a dismal season in the field (one victory, one tie, seven losses) and at the box office...
...live action," a $4,200,000 production of Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, starring Kirk Douglas as the harpooner and James Mason as the sinister Captain Nemo. The picture has its faults, but they are not the kind that will make Disney any box office trouble...
...expired. Walt rushed to New York, recorded sound track for a new Mickey Mouse cartoon called Steamboat Willie, and released it in Manhattan. "It's a wow!" cried one critic after another, and the public came piling in. Man was about to be conquered by a mouse (see box...
...Artist Giro forget to put eleven men on the defensive team, or does he believe that football is played like hockey, with men being sent to the penalty box...
...Aste. Although he achieved neither of his two ambitions, his was a breathtaking career, based upon a brilliantly simple innovation made at the age of 19. In Rome and Paris and Madrid and Cairo, men still have their shoes shined standing on the street, one foot up on a box. The posture is not easy for the kneeling bootblack or dignified for his customer. Anthony Aste pioneered with the U.S. gift to shoe-shining: the chair on a raised stand. By enthroning the customer he became "King of the Bootblacks" and a rival to Whitneys...