Word: cannoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cannon worked on almost every New York daily, first made a name as a columnist with "Sergeant Cannon Says," a column of eloquent, olive-drab barracks talk written for the now defunct PM while he was a G.I. Later, Stars & Stripes made him a combat correspondent in Europe. At war's end he joined the Post to write sports, did a stint as a war correspondent in Korea. When he saw the Herald Tribune's Marguerite Higgins at the front, Cannon remarked: "Meeting Maggie at the front for the first time is like meeting Brenda Frazier...
...drinks from 20 to 30 cups of coffee a day (no liquor), makes regular rounds of such Manhattan hangouts as Toots Shor's, Lindy's, the Stage delicatessen or Sardi's. When Tony Galento, the barrel-shaped bartender-turned-fighter, was flattened by Joe Louis, Cannon wired big (250 Ib.) Toots Shor: "Lay low. This is a bad night for fat saloonkeepers." Scarcely a day passes in season that Cannon doesn't go to the ballpark, fights or races. Once, after a well-wisher introduced him to an English duchess and told him that...
...columns are full of opinions and hard-eyed writing on everything from sports and stuffed shirts to women and war. "Any man is in difficulty," writes Bachelor Cannon, "if he falls in love with a woman he can't knock down with the first punch." After Korea, he reported that "combat soldiers are the loneliest people in the world. What a man does in a period of war he carries around inside of him forever." When Herman Hickman, Yale's 300-lb. football coach resigned, Cannon began a column: "There is enough room in one of Herman Hickman...
...Head Charlie's mouth, Cannon put this comment on manners: "You're licked before you start. You're dead soon as you tip your hat to a dame. You tip your hat. What does that mean? It means the broad is something and you're nothing. It starts off with a guy admitting he's a piece of dirt. Why can't a dame tip her hat back?" Cannon keeps his pockets stuffed with notes for his "Nobody Asked Me, But . . ." columns. Samples: "Nothing improves an actress' diction more than marrying money...
...Cannon is dedicated to his job and sports. Once a friend urged Cannon to accompany him to a social-register party. Said Cannon: "As a sportswriter, I'm only interested in people who sweat...