Word: champs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Palooka, Champ (Monogram). This lowly "B" production is a highly intelligent animation of Ham Fisher's comic strip-or of what the strip was before it got "significance." In really brilliant style it strikes precisely the comic-strip attitude-the understatement of motion, the two-dimensional, parodic life. The villain of the piece (Eduardo Ciannelli) never peeks out from behind his leer; the heroine (Elyse Knox) is rich but unspoiled; the hero (Joe Kirkwood Jr.) is profoundly respectful of his mother, and as innocent as if he had never had a man-to-man talk with his father...
Frank Cassidy of Tufts, New England intercollegiate mile champ, was the man who spoiled a clean sweep for the Crimson. Pacing himself nicely he won the mile by fifty feet...
...from Brooklyn (Goldwyn-RKO Radio) is an elaborate musical retake of Harold Lloyd's old chump-to-champ hit, The Milky Way (1936), starring ebullient Danny Kaye as a meek milkman. At picture's start, Danny's nag passes out between the shafts. Danny, who has to pull Sam Goldwyn's rather cumbrous vehicle practically unaided, also works like a horse. He delivers the laughs, but they can't drown out a good deal of creaking, clanking and whiffling...
With the help of two other ex-G.I.s (onetime Navy Pilot Jack Hill, the 440-yard free-style champ and Sprinter Halo Hirose of the famed 100th Nisei Battalion) Ohio State swam off with the team championship. The Buckeyes won even though Navy Specialist 2/c Joe Verdeur, swimming for the Philadelphia Turner Club, set two new world breast stroke records in the 200-yards (2:19.5) and 200-meters...
They found it was a little too early to tell. But Foxworth, fresh out of the Navy, and fighting in the 175-lb. light heavyweight class that ex-Golden Glover Joe Louis once dominated, looked good. For two rounds, against Eastern Champ Robert Isler, Foxworth studied his rival's tricky southpaw stance, saved his ammunition. Then, in Round 3, he fired two hard rights. The first one rocked his opponent; the second knocked him out. It was Sailor Bob's 76th consecutive...