Word: chins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Liston has power to spare (6 ft. 1 in., 211 lbs.), plus a pair of fast hands that can nail a chin with a kayo punch (16 knockouts). Liston also has links to boxing's underworld; e.g.. Blinky Palermo of Philadelphia's gangland was once arrested carrying some of Liston's receipted bills. Whatever his connections, many boxing buffs see Liston as the U.S.'s most promising challenger for Sweden's Johansson, even though Liston has so far fought only second-raters. With future title fights snarled by legal difficulties. Liston has no assurance...
Long Division. In Singapore, after telling the court he could not repay $3,300 to his 26 creditors at one time, Low Chin Boon got 83 years in which to settle...
Tammy Grimes, as Olivia's gentlewoman-servant Maria, is perfect. She makes it clear that Maria's wits are as sharp as her nose and her chin; she is quite bright enough to have thought up one of the profoundest statements in the play: "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em." Miss Grimes skedaddles and flits about with a lively infectiousness that is devastating...
...Edwardian smoking jacket and pants (see cut) of muted-green velveteen piped in mauve (retail price: $125). Another costume from the same designer, onetime top U.S. fashion model (TIME, Sept. 19, 1949): a woolen evening wrap shaped like a cocoon, with a single saucer-sized button under the chin. The color: hot canary...
...care of Susan's seven-year-old son (Dennis Holmes). But the boy, who thinks that Boyd has killed his mother, tries to take care of him first. He lures the man to a convenient quagmire, all set to snicker as he sinks, but Actor Boyd keeps his chin up. Meanwhile, back at the village, Susan is realizing how wrong she has been about her husband. All those horrible things he did to her were not really horrible at all, the script says, because the poor fellow had an unhappy childhood. Tortured with remorse, Susan turns her head away...