Word: featherweight
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...first full season (1933) he smashed the Pacific Coast League record by hitting safely in 61 consecutive games. He struck up a friendship with the team's first baseman, a fancy dresser and wisecracker, aped his dress and manners. From the Seals' trainer, an oldtime featherweight boxer, he soaked up fancy words. For a while, his stock reply to anyone asking him where he had been was: "Oh, I've been nonchalantly meandering down the pike...
...Wiese was sure that "women were ready for more significant fiction than Gene Stratton Porter and articles more serious than the featherweight stuff they were getting." He even suggested to the board that McCall's sell Burton's stockpile of popular fiction to their bigger rivals, Ladies Home Journal and Woman's Home Companion. He wanted to start from scratch with new, "realistic" writers. For such heresies he was fired at least six times during the first year (he quit nearly as often), was always rehired after a few days or weeks because, he says, "there...
...swarthy, sixtyish, learned Balliol-graduate Sir Maharaj Singh, one of India's principal delegates to the Assembly. Author, statesman and educator, Sir Maharaj taught himself ventriloquism some 30 years ago (to amuse his children). Last week, with all the exuberance that earned him an Oxford "half-blue" in featherweight boxing and made him a top Indian tennis "champion, Delegate Singh offered to show off his talent before a meeting of a trusteeship subcommittee. To help him he had a brand-new stooge named Uno, just purchased for $85 in Times Square...
...latest protégé-playmate is little, dark-haired Don Perone, former New England featherweight champ, who has lived in Iturbi's Beverly Hills mansion for six months. Iturbi employs him as coffee-pourer and sparring partner, and rewards him with singing lessons. Although Perone was wounded at Salerno by a bayonet that pierced his stomach, Amateur Boxer Iturbi has persuaded Perone to return to the ring. Perone will make the great sacrifice next month against a local fighter selected by Iturbi. He would much rather sing...
...Madison Square Garden last week, the fans showed what they thought of Uncle Mike's prices. Just before Willie Pep knocked out Sal Bartolo to become undisputed featherweight champion, the fight announcer ballyhooed the details of the coming heavyweight fight, and was drowned out by boos. The day before, Manhattan police raided the Jacobs Ticket Agency, just around the corner from Mike's office, found the best seats being scalped...