Word: boxing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brought a well-illustrated attitude of racial tolerance. Earl Warren grew up in Bakersfield, in California's San Joaquin Valley, where segregation was unknown. At the University of California, one of Warren's good friends was a Negro named Walter Gordon ("We used to box a bit together," Gordon recalls). A boxing, wrestling and football star (All-America, 1918), Gordon later coached Warren's son James at the university. In 1944 Warren appointed Gordon a member of the State Adult Authority, which sets all prison terms and grants all paroles...
...extended hand. Certainly it was not to detect the moisture on his finger tips from the blades of grass. If it were just to detect the type of turf and the footing why the extended hand? Also we saw no motions between the young scientist (?) and the press box. I realize Harvard has a School of Mines but surely he was not looking for uranium in the Yale Bowl. Incidentally, one of his observations was at the exact spot on the six-yard Harvard line where Yale was in possession of the ball and unable to score...
...Benson Hotel, Portland. Bordon F. Beck, Jr. 1410 Yeon Bldg.; Philadelphia, Pa.: Dec. 29. L. Don Loet will speak at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. Thomas S. Weary, 1617 Land Titio Bldg.; Rhode Island: Henry Lamar will speak at a luncheon Jan. 2 in Providence. Contact John S. Higgins, P.O. Box 1613; Rochester, N.Y.: Dec. 20. Lloyd Jordan will speak at a luncheon. Russell A. Sibley, 5 South Fitzhugh...
...category. He startled his competition and movie critics with such films as The Sniper, Champion, Cyrano de Bergerac, Home of the Brave, Member of the Wedding, High Noon. Some of these, and a few others (The Four poster, Death of a Salesman, Eight Iron Men), did poorly at the box office; nonetheless, each was a fine piece of craftsmanship...
Actor Wayne, now that he is undisputed top draw at the box office, seems to feel that his mere presence in a picture is enough - and acting might be too much. In Hondo, which lists him as coproducer. he talks a little more than usual, but on the other hand, plays up his physical presence in a rather peculiar way. On five separate occasions he takes long, slow walks away from the camera, rolling his muscular buttocks like a male Marilyn Monroe as he goes...