Word: demarco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next was Flowing Velvet (named for a Jacqueline Cochran face cream), a "garland dance" performed by eleven young ladies swirling swatches of red and pink velvet to the tune of The Most Beautiful Girl in the World. After a professional interlude by Dancers Tony and Sally DeMarco, the debs came on again with Polka Sleigh Ride, in which, after a bit of polkaing by girls and their escorts, one group managed to arrange themselves so that they were impersonating a sleigh, while the others waved them on their way. The finale, called Shining Hour (after a Cochran perfume...
...Francisco's Cow Palace, Jimmy Carter, a workmanlike lightweight when he feels like fighting, spent 14 rounds belting Champion Paddy DeMarco before he beat him to the canvas for good in the 15th and regained the title that he lost last spring (TIME, March...
Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow interviews Gloria Swanson and Lightweight Champ Paddy DeMarco...
Right from the start, Paddy upset the dope. Though he could hardly fight like Joe Louis, he seemed determined not to fight like DeMarco. Bouncing all over the ring, he threw sharp jabs and long, looping rights. Flat-footed and casual. Jimmy Carter protected himself, boxed back occasionally and waited for Paddy to tire...
...tired. His title already lost on points, Carter waded in, shrugged off DeMarco's punches and tried doggedly for a knockout. All he could do was salvage a couple of rounds. The Brooklyn billygoat put on an impromptu acrobatic act for photographers when the announcer named him the new lightweight champion of the world...