Word: corbett
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This evening I borrowed (or stole, as you will) from the Corbett Clinic, 1380 W. Lake St., syringe, needle and MS [morphine sulphate] bottle (20 cc) containing about 8-10 cc of MS ¼ per cc, the latter coming from an adequately guarded locker, so that my possession of same should not reflect on the clinic, where I have taken temporary employment...
...working as a boilermaker in East Los Angeles. At 21, he stood 6 ft. 1½ in., weighed 212 Ibs., could high-jump 6 ft. and run 100 yds. in eleven seconds. He could hit like a jackhammer and, in the words of Gentleman Jim Corbett, "couldn't be hurt with an ax." In 1899, when he was 24, he knocked out Bob Fitzsimmons in a fight at Coney Island and was the heavyweight champion of the world...
...became a symbol of invincibility around the world. He fought from a crouch-the "Jeffries crouch"-his bullet head and meaty body low, his left outthrust, his right cocked to mete out instant doom. He beat Joe Choynski, Tom Sharkey, Gus Ruhlin, beat Fitzsimmons again, knocked out Jim Corbett twice. In 1905, at 29, he ran out of opponents and retired, wealthy and undefeated, to raise cattle and prize dogs on his ranch at Burbank, Calif, and enjoy the plaudits due a superman...
More often, one incident after another seemed to have been sent by fate to deepen the old wound. Booth got a letter from a sergeant named Corbett, asking for free tickets to a performance. "I am sure you will not refuse," wrote Corbett, "when I tell you that I am the . . . soldier that shot and killed your brother." Booth sent the tickets...
...Elementary schoolchildren: Tom Corbett, My Friend Irma, Red Skelton, Roy Rogers, Stu Erwin...