Word: featherweight
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James Glenn, NBC's man for special effects, imported three varieties of snow for Christmas week: 1) confetti, for stage-trained comics who see no reason for changing a theater convention that dates back to Uncle Tom's Cabin; 2) modern, featherweight plastic snow that measures about twice the size of nature's flakes and is used mostly on dramatic shows, where it is scattered over a scene from "snow drops" (rotary drums) that are suspended over the set; and 3) a foamy snow spray, also plastic, that is released from an aerosol bomb by a stagehand...
...Vienna, as the Russian team piled up an unbeatable lead in the world weight-lifting championships, Russian Featherweight Fedor Tshimishkian set a new world record by lifting a total...
...expert at their special form of assault and battery that they run out of opponents. Often, to keep busy they try western-style boxing on the side (Chamroen, Robert Cohen's opponent in last week's western-style bout, is also his country's featherweight, bantamweight and lightweight champion, Thai style). But without their music, forbidden to use their feet, forced to depend on their padded fists, most Thai fighters are hamstrung. Effete westerners, Thai fans agree, have ruined a fine, manly sport with foolish rules...
...cocky young Spike Webb was a comer, good enough to tangle in a nontitle Donnybrook with Johnny Kilbane, the featherweight champion. But before he had a chance to tackle Kilbane again, Spike was mixed up in a much bigger brawl. As coach of the 29th Division boxing team, he caught the eye of General John J. Pershing. At war's end he trained the A.E.F. boxing team for the Inter-Allied Army games in Paris. Spike has no trouble recalling the most stylish fighter on his squad: a young marine light heavyweight named Gene Tunney...
...Philippines' weightlifter Rodrigo Del Rosario, a featherweight (132¼ lbs.), who broke his own world record with a two-hand press...