Word: gloving
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Louis hasn't laced on a boxing glove since he began cavalry training at Fort Riley three months ago. Conn's last fight was a bare-knuckle brawl in which he broke his left hand on his father-in-law's head. But when these two fighting men go into action, ringsiders expect a dime thriller for their $40 pasteboards...
...Pete uses the same stance and swing as most ballplayers. But his fielding is almost incredible. In one flashing paroxysm, he catches the ball in his gloved left hand, tucks it under his right stump, shakes the glove off, grabs the ball and throws. The second or two lost in this complicated motion are made up for by Gray's powerful and accurate peg. So far this season, no errors have been chalked against...
Whatever its shortcomings as a kid-glove social document, This Above All is a remarkably good love story. WAAF-Girl Joan Fontaine, who has what it takes to play lady-in-a-haystack, quietly meets her man (Mr. Power) in the blackout, goes away with him to a seaside resort, where he leaves her, eventually rejoins him for keeps after the Luftwaffe has almost battered his brains out in a London bombing. It is a restrained, sensitive, appealing performance-a tribute to beauteous Joan Fontaine, to the intelligent direction of Anatole Litvak, and to the painstaking coaching of Director Alfred...
Died. John ("Jack") Burke, 67, famed marathon fighter of the '90s; of injuries apparently suffered in traffic; in Plainfield, N.J. Burke and Andy Bowen fought the longest glove battle on record, in New Orleans in 1893: no rounds. The two battered each other for seven hours and 19 minutes to a draw...
...Robinson, born Walker Smith, first saw a pair of boxing gloves at the Brewster St. Recreation Center in his native Detroit, where, up to the time he was eight when his family moved to Harlem, he used to hang around watching Amateur Joe Louis and local big shots. He never laced on a glove until he was 13-and then only because he was urged to by Trainer George Gainford, who ran a gym in Harlem...