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...Hollywood's chambermaids of the press, none picked up more telltale bits of underwear from the Franchot Tone-Barbara Payton-Tom Neal muss-up than did Florabel Muir, Hollywood tattler for the New York Daily News and the Los Angeles Mirror. Last week Actor Tone, who lost the fist fight but won the girl, took revenge. He spat squarely in Florabel's face...
...been knocked out since Max Schmeling did it 15 years ago, Rocky said the proper thing: "I'm glad I won, but I'm sorry I had to do it to Louis." Joe, accepting condolences in a gloomy dressing room while soaking his bruised left fist in a bucket of ice, refused to state flatly that he was through. But the sportwriters were already writing their farewells to Joe-and sizing up a likely new champion...
...first play from scrimmage, Bright took the ball, handed off to his fullback, then faded back to watch the play unfold. Charging out of the Oklahoma line, burly Tackle Wilbanks Smith ignored the ball carrier and headed, fist cocked, for Halfback Bright. His arm came up and his right forearm crashed against Bright's jaw, a blow that knocked Bright dizzy and stopped play for more than two minutes. Eight plays later, with Bright carrying the ball this time, Smith piled in again. Bright picked himself up off the turf, rubbing his jaw. On the next play, Bright circled...
More consistent, and the freshest thing in the film, is Keenan Wynn's performance as a cantankerous oil and cattle baron with an amazing capacity for hard liquor, who puts his fist reverently to his heart when .anyone utters the sacred name of Texas...
...Hustings. West of the Alleghenies, Joe McCarthy is still bamboozling audiences. On the speaker's platform he has a sweat-stained, shirtsleeved earnestness. He stumbles, mixes his grammar, bangs the lectern hard with his fist. He dives into a huge briefcase for "documentation." He flourishes affidavits, reads from congressional hearings, waves photostats. "Listen to this, if you will-unbelievable!", he cries...