Word: charleyism
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McCluskey will be the starting quarterback today, since Tom Bilodeau came up with a charley horse against Cornell and missed early practices this week. Bilodeau should be able to see action today...
Florida: Republican Charley Holley, 39, former Florida house minority leader, last week unveiled "photocopies" of bank ledgers purporting to show that Democratic Candidate Haydon Burns, 52, Jacksonville's segregationist mayor, had $1,215,690 stashed in Nassau. Burns denied it, flew with reporters to Nassau, proved to their satisfaction that Holley's documents were phony, came home a near cinch to replace outgoing Democrat Farris Bryant...
...title when he signed in Boston for a Nov. 16 rematch with Sonny Listen. Unfazed, the Lip zipped to Manhattan to bedizen his ample middle with a $500 gold-plated championship belt from Ring Magazine. Verbally, he still stings like a bee. Gazing at the solid silver waistband Charley Mitchell won for going a bare-knuckle 39 rounds against John L. Sullivan in 1888, Muhammad AH bumbled: "They got cheap with the belts. They used to make them better." Maybe they did the fighters...
Shrill Idealism. Perhaps in rebellion against tyrannical Daddy, Prescott's cynical, slatternly daughter Cordelia seduces one of his prize ex-pupils, Charley Strong, and shacks up with him in Paris. Poor Charley, missing one lung from shrapnel in World War I, has not long to live, and Cordelia genuinely loves him. But Prescott is determined to save them both. He pops up in Paris "at his most ebullient, his most awful." He takes over Charley and ousts Cordelia. When Charley dies, it is in Prescott's, not Cordelia's arms, and it is clear that Prescott...
...heavyweights are everybody's heroes, with their tomato-red Cadillacs and gold-lamè sport coats, their 18-in. biceps and sledgehammer fists. When they fight, the whole world watches. So what happens? One punch, and it's goodbye Charley, let's do this again next year. It doesn't even seem to matter where the punch lands: Cassius Clay taps Sonny Listen on the arm, and Sonny takes the pipe sitting on his stool...