Word: dan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like Sugar Ray Robinson, Chicago's Johnny Bratton is fond of flashy clothes and cars, can handle a hot lick on the drums, and boxes with a fancy-Dan prance. When Sugar Ray graduated to the middleweight title by out-punching Jake LaMotta (TIME, Feb. 26), Bratton decided to apply for Sugar's vacant welterweight title. In Chicago's Stadium last week, 23-year-old Johnny put up a fight for it.* His opponent: New Jersey's Charley Fusari, 25, who has the distinction of once having stayed in the same ring with Sugar Ray Robinson...
Thirteen labor bosses, including C.I.O.'s Phil Murray, James Carey, Walter Reuther, A.F.L.'s William Green, George Meany and Dan Tracy, walked out of the mobilization program. They were admittedly acting mainly for dramatic effect. "In no other way," said labor, "can we effectively impress upon the American people the great wrongs being perpetrated." The only labor leader left in an advisory capacity: John L. Lewis, quietly smirking and, like Tar-Baby, saying nothin...
...scapegoat dear to the hearts of Sunday-supplement writers and students of the devious Dr. Fu Manchu. But no one 'could charge Kefauver with pulling his shots on political grounds: his investigation into the unaccountable wealth of the Democrats' candidate for Cook County sheriff, Police Captain Dan ("Tubbo") Gilbert, unquestionably cost Majority Leader Scott Lucas the election. And by last week, Estes Kefauver's determined sleuthing had produced the most detailed portrait in a generation of the face of organized U.S. crime...
...these men is lying," he said coldly. "Their words are as far apart as Dan and Beersheba." "I'm not lying," insisted Bohannon. Young insisted likewise...
Betty Grable is still Betty Grable, although she seems to get older every year. Dan Dailey is a big guy who is pleasant enough. He can't sing or dance, but that's no reason to pick on him. The only person who seems to know what he's doing is Danny Thomas, a comedian who happens to be funny even though he is in the same movie with the others. "Call Me Mister" is a "nothing" movie. That's an achievement of a sort...