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...sired by Joe Nemo; and don't, even if he's a big bruiser, bet on a former Class A dog named Chase Jones, or any hound from the Joseph Zion Kennel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Going to the Dogs | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

...Life. Farewell, My Lovely (filmed once before in 1945 as Murder, My Sweet) is the caper in which Philip Marlowe gets mixed up with a huge bruiser named Moose Malloy. Moose is just out of jail and looking for his old girl friend Velma. Before she is run to ground, Marlowe works his way through L.A., low life to high society and back again, trailing in his wake subplots and an ever increasing number of corpses. This time around, Robert Mitchum stars as Marlowe. He is all wrong. For Chandler, Marlowe was a kind of rogue knight. Mitchum plays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Soft-Boiled | 9/1/1975 | See Source »

Bill Bain, Southern Cal, 6 ft. 3 in., 268 lbs. A bruiser who can play anywhere along the line. He's been prying open gaps for Anthony Davis for two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Pro Football Scout's Notebook | 12/16/1974 | See Source »

...fullback the situation is the same. Nobody has taken charge and said "I'm the one." Veteran bruiser Phil Allen, and sophomores Neil Miller, Martin Foye, and John Flood have all been working the position but no one has claimed it thus far. Allen should have the edge on experience, but yesterday Restic said, he "hadn't seen anybody who's a standout there...

Author: By Peter A. Landry, | Title: Crimson Travels to Brown Saturday For Final Tune-Up of Pre-Season | 9/21/1973 | See Source »

...Democratic convention in Chicago have made the graying Miami Beach citizens (median age: 65) more than a little jittery. Fortunately, the coolest heads belong to those most directly involved in keeping the peace. The coolest of all is Police Chief Rocky Pomerance, a big (270 lb.), bright, benign bruiser who preaches that "the police do not have to be an abrasive force." For the moment, at least, Rocky's spirit of cooperation is matched by the leaders of the Youth International Party (YIP), the chief coordinators for the dozen or more radical groups massing for what one of their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Miami Battens Down | 6/12/1972 | See Source »

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