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Tooth & Nail. In Mineola, L.I., Walter Szymkow, booked as an auto theft suspect, pulled a four-inch nail out of the station floor, bent it between his teeth, broke a brick in two, pulverized it with his fist, excused his actions by explaining that he was embarrassed, never having been arrested before...
...wear felt hats instead of sombreros, and take short siestas. An ordinary Mexican, if he wins in a lottery, buys a car and goes on a spree. The man from Monterrey starts a new business. Throughout Mexico, the sign for stinginess, hitting the elbow of one arm with the fist of the other, is used almost automatically in referring to Monterrey...
...lashed a right uppercut and a left hook to the challenger's jaw. Rocky went down for a count of four. In the next round he gave Zale the pounding of his life. Standing flat-footed at close range, he swung right after right, often starting with his fist at knee level and finishing with it flush against the champion's jaw. Finally, at the end of the round, Tony proved that he was human by going down. The bell saved...
...Curran & Co. could make a damaging cut in the vital flow of iron ore, coal and limestone to U.S. producers who must overstock before the Lakes freeze. The 70 ships manned by members of the A.F.L.'s Seafarer's International Union sailed as usual-despite one furious fist fight with N.M.U. picketers. But more & more freighters owned by the 24 operators with whom neither the N.M.U. nor the S.I.U. have contracts were tied up in sympathy strikes by their crews as they came to port. This was precisely what Joe Curran hoped...
Canyon Passage. Ripsnorting Technicolored escape into the traditional Old West-with romance, fist fights, Indians and Hoagy Carmichael ballads (TIME...