Word: featherweight
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Other than script and direction trouble, the picture's chief drawback is its disastrous miscasting of Barbara Stanwyck as a featherweight. Her no-nonsense personality jars a skittery light comedy right off its fragile moorings. When Barbara slips into a filmy negligee and begins to thresh about a hotel bedroom with her leading man, it is impossible to remember that she is supposed to be just kidding around...
Thirty hungry fight managers (including ex-featherweight, lightweight, welterweight champion Henry Armstrong) have been twisting Foxworth's arm to get him to sign up. But Sailor Bob, who earns a piddling $30 a week as a janitor in an East St. Louis nightclub, wasn't buying any just yet. He intends to go back to studying physical education at the University of Wisconsin, put more weight on his rawboned frame, and turn pro when he is good & ready. Says Foxworth, who never seems to be in much of a hurry: "My family matures rather late in life...
...boys who got this straight talk from New York's new Boxing Administrator Eddie Eagan (TIME, Jan. 22) was the world's featherweight champion, Willie Pep. A master boxer with a featherweight punch, he had been dubbed "BackPedaling Bill" by the fans. But in last week's 15-round championship battle with Bronx Phil Terranova, Hartford's nimble 124-lb. Willie put on the fighting-est show of his career...
...Monsanto Chemical Co.: a featherweight insulating material, called Santocel, which will make possible blankets and sleeping bags weighing only a few ounces...
...Correspondent Johnston's featherweight Swiss portable was the exception that proved the beachhead rule...