Word: footwork
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Eager to Learn. Last year, as his footwork began to catch up with his booming power, Dick fought his way to the semifinals of the Nationals at Forest Hills. U.S. Champion Art Larsen stopped him cold, but Savitt was tagged as a comer, and ranked sixth. Last winter, Savitt went on a barnstorming trip to Australia.There he began to reach peak form, partly under the tutelage of Veteran Adrian Quist. Says Quist: "He was ceaselessly eager to learn and profited promptly from every fragment of advice." Savitt crowned his tour by winning the Australian Championship.* In the four-set final...
Middleweight Boxing Champion Sugar Ray Robinson, who has always wanted to make his name as a dancer, got a chance to exhibit his fancy footwork. Taking a night off from his boxing tour of Europe, he won a unanimous decision tap-dancing for an appreciative audience at a theatrical benefit in Paris' Palais de Chaillot...
Bratton, 23, a stand-up boxer with a stabbing left, a rough right and some of the fanciest footwork in the business, was up against a wily, hit & run boxer who attacks in flurries, shifts into a weaving defense designed to make his opponent look like a floundering club fighter. For the first two minutes of Round One Gavilan stuck right to the script, bouncing in to pepper Bratton from his low crouch, bouncing back away again to duck Bratton's right. Then he caught Bratton flush in the face with a jolting right cross, followed it up with...
...running down the killers. He finds his suspects planning a foolproof $1,000,000 postal robbery, joins the gang's conspiracy in the guise of a bribe-hungry cop. Ladd's risky masquerade finally lands him in a mess that only fists, bullets and fast footwork can straighten out, but not before the picture works its familiar story into well-tied knots of suspense...
Andrei Y. Vishinsky's "The Law of the Soviet State" ("Fascinating footwork in the field of Soviet gobbledegook, but uhgl hardly an enthralling best seller type...