Word: camped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Downstairs in the ballroom, the Dewey camp continued to present its bland and beckoning front to the world. While the opposition gnashed its teeth, the Dewey camp staged a fashion show. Delegates' wives sat on gilt chairs, an orchestra played lively airs and a squad of models paraded summer and fall clothes. Crooned Mrs. Edward J. MacMullan, arbiter of Philadelphia society and mistress of ceremonies: "Here you may feast your eyes on the world of fashion . . . Her bathing suit is white Lastex which fits like a second skin . . . This delectable creature is wearing the sort of dress of which...
There were sideshows everywhere. Harold Stassen's backers handed out slices of cheese in their headquarters, carried a pretty girl through jammed lobbies in a rowboat. She held a sign which read: "Man the oars, ride the crest, Harold Stassen, he's the best." The Taft camp imported a real elephant and led it around the streets; they were rewarded with a vicious rumor-that they were doping the beast with digitalis to keep it alive...
...word went round Jersey Joe Walcott's training camp that Champion Joe Louis was worried. He actually sent a spy over to scout the enemy. But when the champ's agent arrived, Walcott's men gave him the eye-and the bum's rush. They had him halfway out the door before Jersey Joe intervened. "Let him watch," he ordered. Then Challenger Walcott, using pillowy 16-oz. gloves, neatly flattened a sparring partner. Said he: "Tell Nicholson to take that back to Louis...
...determined to get them back. He began training far ahead of schedule-while Big Joe, eating his way to a blubbery 225 Ibs., was seeing London and Paris. He hired the roughest & toughest sparring mates he could find. He pulled no punches in sparring sessions at his New Jersey camp...
...Fever. In his training camp at an amusement park overlooking a pond, Jersey Joe (real name: Arnold Cream) likes to sneak off to his room and play the phonograph, singing along with his favorite Ink Spots and Savannah Churchill records. At night he talks by telephone with each of his six kids. When he's a little low in spirits, he reads his well-thumbed Bible: "The Bible gives me lots of imagination ... it really picks me up." Nobody heard much about him until he was an old man of 34 (the same age as Louis*) because, he says...