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...round Jersey Joe Walcott's training camp that Champion Joe Louis was worried. He actually sent a spy over to scout the enemy. But when the champ's agent arrived, Walcott's men gave him the eye-and the bum's rush. They had him halfway out the door before Jersey Joe intervened. "Let him watch," he ordered. Then Challenger Walcott, using pillowy 16-oz. gloves, neatly flattened a sparring partner. Said he: "Tell Nicholson to take that back to Louis...
...distractions-the exasperating clicks of cameras, the chatter of spectators (Ben draws the largest galleries), the unnerving applause coming from another green. On the second round, a couple of happy-go-lucky dogs yapped about the course after him (the committee quickly enforced the no-dog rule). At the halfway point, Ben had fallen one stroke behind Sam Snead, and South Africa's dangerous Bobby Locke had moved up to tie Hogan for second...
Unlike most other sports, walking is not necessarily limited to the very young. At the halfway mark, balding, 40-year-old Ernest Weber, a Manhattan delivery man, was bustling along like a jet-propelled dowager in a huff. One of the favorites, he used a lot of hip-shimmy ("It gives you a longer stride"), and piston-like arm motion ("I try to think I am pulling on a rope"). His eyes were busy too, watching a German refugee (now a U.S. citizen) named Henry Laskau, the man in the lead. Laskau, who took up walking as a sport only...
...pompous way," smiles Joe, "I conceived ours as a column of information -halfway between pure opinion and what is essentially gossip. I felt there had been no formula for the use of material in this area as news or opinion...
...mile course zigzags through narrow city streets, swoops uphill & down. In the 1937 race, a Frenchman drove over a cliff into the sea, and one Italian ended Up with his radiator embedded in the ticket office of Monte Carlo's railroad station. Last week, after 50 laps (halfway), eleven of the 19 cars in the race had quit. But Igor, gripping the wheel of his No. 36, a crimson Ferrari, was still in the running. Then it happened...