Word: featherweight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time on the business end, Gordy got where he is today mainly because he wanted to be a songwriter. Son of a Georgia-born plasterer, he grew up in Detroit slums, quit school in the eleventh grade because he was interested only in music and boxing. As a professional featherweight, he won ten of 14 bouts, seven on knockouts, but got discouraged because he "never fought anybody worthwhile." After Army service, he opened a record shop and went broke, but continued writing and recording songs at his own expense. In 1959, Way Over There sold 60,000 copies. Encouraged, Gordy...
...love." 149 Victories. A slight (5 ft. 8 in., 150 lbs.), combative redhead, Vaughn was reared in Michigan, where he spent so much of his youth boxing that he did not graduate from high school until he was 20. He won the Michigan Golden Gloves as a 124-lb. featherweight, logged 149 victories in 172 amateur and professional fights-and was never knocked out (though his nose was broken three times, his jaw once...
...furs are not sealed off against the wind (none of those tacky elastic cuffs and waistbands for today's skier), many ski shops are pushing "layered dressing." Lord & Taylor suggests that customers start with Ban-Lon long Johns ($7), then don a nylon T shirt ($5) and a featherweight nylon Windbreaker...
...strapping, hamhanded man with slicked-back hair and brooding mustache, Michelangeli ambled onstage with the baleful nonchalance of a boxer bent on mayhem. Once he settled at the keyboard, his touch was featherweight light, his attack crisp and restrained through Debussy's liquid Images and Beethoven's soaring Sonata in C Major (Opus 2, No. 3). After two encores and a dozen curtain calls, he unconcernedly ambled offstage to a standing ovation. Typically, following his triumph, he repaired last week to the regenerative quietude of a month-long teaching engagement at Siena's Accademia Musicale Chigiana. Untypically...
Died. Johnny Dundee, 71, onetime world featherweight boxing champion, the crowd-pleasing "Scotch Wop" (he grew up as Giuseppe Carrora in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen) who danced and jabbed his way through 321 professional bouts in 22 years, outpointing France's Eugene Criqui for the title in 1923, only to resign it one year later when he could no longer stay within the 126-lb. weight limit, finishing his career as a lightweight in 1932; of pneumonia; in East Orange...