Word: fights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mario Scelba sat impassive, surveying the battlefield with agate eyes. It was the worst brawl the Italian Parliament had seen in a long time. Some believed the Communists had deliberately started the fight. Said Il Popolo: "... A deliberate maneuver to debase the dignity and efficiency of Parliament...
...tough little film about a washed-up smalltimer (Robert Ryan) in the fight racket (TIME, April...
...suspect into a concentration camp. We don't need to do that. As long as we know the enemy, we are not worried. Our side is stronger. Eventually, the Russians will see they can get nothing more from Germany but trouble. They will go. Until then, we will fight them. Not with sabotage-the Soviet system sabotages itself-but with the collection and spread of information, with passive resistance, with the 'F for Freedom.' If you are against inhumanity, you must fight...
...fight, in effect, was for charity. Referee Jack Dempsey gave his services free. Film Comedians Bud Abbott & Lou Costello promoted it as a benefit in aid of the youth foundation established by Costello after his infant son died in 1943. Lightweight Champion Ike Williams, a cool, sharpshooting Negro from New Jersey, whose manager is a good friend of Costello's, took only 7½% of the gate, although Enrique Bolanos, the Mexican-born challenger...
...fourth, with Bolanos still on his feet, his manager jumped into the ring waving a towel. A moment later, the challenger slumped to the canvas and Referee Dempsey stopped the fight. The show would probably not have made an edifying spectacle for Costello's foundation kids, but it proved that Ike Williams still had the lightweight division well in hand...