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Before another round had ended, the sentimentally pro-Louis crowd had the answer. The doomsday lefts & rights that won Joe the title from Braddock, and turned Max Schmeling and Max Baer to butter, were gone. For a dozen years Louis had been the best in the business, but the years had run out on him. At 218 Ibs., 17 over his prime weight, he was a paunchy shadow of the Brown Bomber. Charles spotted Louis 33^ Ibs., but he out-jabbed and outsmarted him almost...
Died. Joe Gould, 53, manager of prizefighters, including onetime Heavyweight Champion James J. ("Jersey Jim") Braddock-with whom he never signed a formal contract until the title bout with Max Baer, relying instead on a simple handshake agreement; of leukemia; in Manhattan...
...chiefly the story of George's effort to fight a nightmarish war against able enemies, with insufficient men and supplies. Freeman's accounts of Washington's volunteer trip to warn the French away from the Ohio, the disastrous defeat at Fort Necessity and the slaughter of Braddock's army are easily the soundest and most complete in print...
...James J. Braddock...
Among others there are Sir Storrington Thirst ("he had a habit of laying his hands upon you"); mannish Asta Thundersley (she collects paintings of "tumors wearing spectacles, wombs in aspic, ulcers in floral hats"); The Tiger Fitzpatrick, spavined prizefighter ("all I want is a chance at this so-called Braddock"); Mothmar Acord ("a dish-shaped face, discolored by oriental suns and high fevers") ; Sinclair Wensday ("a cocaine personality . . . tall and popular . . . Galahad gone to the devil"). At his best Author Kersh writes like a comic Soho Gorki, drawing wicked, lively sketches of the barflies, pimps, fairies and phonies of London...