Word: championing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Vince Dundee (real name: Vincent Lazzaro), 41, onetime world middleweight boxing champion (1933-34), brother of Joe Dundee, world welterweight champion (1927-29); after battling for seven years against multiple sclerosis; in Glendale, Calif...
...Champion. Ring Lardner's prize middleweight heel, played with a wallop by Kirk Douglas (TIME, April...
...buildup was satisfying and 19,000 people paid $108,000 to get into Los Angeles' Wrigley Field. The question was whether it would be a show or a contest. Champion Williams had beaten Bolanos twice before-but the second time Williams had absorbed a stomach pounding and had won on a split decision. Last week there seemed to be an outside chance that Bolanos, an earnest, resourceful fighter, might tag Williams with a damaging shot or shade him on points...
Remarried. Barney Ross, 40, onetime world's lightweight (1933-35) and welterweight (1934-38) boxing champion, now a Manhattan advertising man, who was awarded the Silver Star for heroism on Guadalcanal, won another battle in 1946 when he overcame an opium addiction picked up after his injuries in the Pacific; and second wife Cathy Hewlett Ross, 33, ex-showgirl who divorced him in 1946; in Del Mar, Calif...
...Great Dan Patch (W. R. Frank; United Artists) is a sentimental, sway-backed horse opera about a champion pacer of the turn of the century, and the Hoosier hayseeds who bred and trained him. On the track Dan cuts a handsome and convincing figure, but the scriptwriter did him wrong by stuffing his feed bag.full of low grade Hollywood corn. Sample: Dan shows up outside the bedroom window of his dying master (Henry Hull) looking as if he were prepared to read the burial service. Equally lugubrious are Dennis O'Keefe, Gail Russell and Ruth Warrick, all of whom...