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...Torres battle Willie Pastrano for the light-heavyweight championship in a rare doubleheader. Like Paret, Stable was a Cuban, and the chants started-"Sta-ble! Stable! Sta-ble!"-as soon as the challenger clambered into the ring. Emile got mostly boos except from ringside, where Mama Emelda Griffith and Cousin Bernie led the cheers. "The best, the best, the best!" shouted Bernie, as Griffith buckled Stable's knees with a right cross in the very first round. "Go get him, Champ!" screamed Mama, as he smashed Stable with a left hook in the fourth, and saliva sprayed all across...
...Franklin? At last the money was right: his night's work earned Griffith $70,000. He needed every penny. At 26, he supports his mother, two cousins, three brothers, four sisters and five nieces, all of whom live in a 10½-room, $50,000 house in Queens that Emile bought four years ago. Of course that doesn't leave room for Griffith, so he rents an apartment in New Jersey. He cheerfully pays all the bills, and he telephones home at least once a day -even from places like Rome, Vienna and Hawaii. "I want to know...
Denver's Rick Chaffee won the slalom. He is Jon's cousin and brother of Kim Chaffee, captain of last year's Harvard Ski team. The downhill title went to Bill Marolt of Colorado...
...creaky ante bellum mansion where Charlotte has lived in unkempt seclusion for decades has to be torn down to make way for a bridge. "Dollin' Cousin" Miriam (Olivia de Havilland) arrives to help Dr. Drew (Joseph Gotten) handle the crisis and learns firsthand that the good old days are far from over. That night, in Miriam's closet, a dress is slashed to ribbons. Soon a head rolls out of a box, a hand starts picking out tunes in the music room, and heaven only knows where a body will turn...
...history is only the background for O'Casey's warm, humorous, pathetic characters. Nora and Jack Clitheroe share a Dublin tenement apartment with Peter Flynn, Nora's uncle, and Covey, Jack's cousin. Covey, an international socialist, mocks old Peter, a die-hard Irish nationalist, while Nora attempts to pacify them both. But she cannot control her husband's allegiance to the Citizen Army. He leaves her and dies in the battle...