Word: champs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crammed from curtain to curtain with the antics of an ex-heavyweight champ, tuneful songs of a Harvard man, colorful dance arrangements and high-class special ties, "Hi Ya, Gentlemen" has come to town with a vim, vigor and verve making it a serious contender for the title of best musical comedy of the year. Incidentally, it proves what every sports-writer has always known: Max Baer is at heart the clown, not the fighter, and is better off by far in the former role...
Curt, concise, clear summary of election results: Chump met Champ...
Technocrats since the campaign began, these Zanics offer their usual mad stunts. Brow-battering, car-tweaking, nose-picking Moc sings hoarse opera. And Mike, the guy with a dinosaur's build and Minnie Mouse's laryux, is anointed Bulgarian Golden Gloves Champ after a tooth and claw battle with Curley, the tapirnosed bald head. And all this goes on amidst rhumbas and tangoes by a red-hot Pan-American band! The more cultured group will be nauseated by rough and ready buffoonery which makes the Marx Brothers seem subtle by comparison. But if you like your humor simple and sincere...
...motored past City Hall, past signs, "Welcome Champ," "Roosevelt For a 3rd, 4th, 5th Term," past thousands of faces that know Roosevelt and light up when he passes. "If there's any anti-third term sentiment in America, it isn't in the faces of the crowds," said Correspondent Alfred Stedman of the anti-Roosevelt St. Paul Pioneer Press...
...York and Ohio, reports of an upswing in Willkie sentiment had roused resurgent hopes. To the train had come an announcement that Franklin Roosevelt was about to charge into the Presidential campaign. The news was like a tonic. Willkie had at last smoked out the ghost. The absentee champ was at last coming out of his corner. With a new note of confidence in his voice, Wendell Willkie faced 27,000 people who jammed the St. Louis Arena that night (7,000 more stood outside...