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...Champion Carl ("Bobo") Olson, 26, was a good little man, ambitious but amenable. One steamy evening last week, 27,431 fans plunked down $206,784 at New York's Polo Grounds to learn whether Challenger Olson, no knockout specialist, could outlast 2-to-1 Favorite Moore. After 19 hectic years in the ring, 143 professional bouts, Moore had already designated (in paid newspaper ads) his target for Bout No. 145: Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano...
Burly Cinematenor Mario [The Great Caruso'] Lanza, a devil-may-care sort of swashbuckler with four playful children, found himself in a peck of trouble in California courts. Net of two separate damage suits against him: home-wrecking -in the literal, unromantic sense. His hectic week began when a judge awarded a whopping $40,361.66 to a Beverly Hills couple named Kaiser to undo the swath cut through their $200,000 house in a mere 28 months by former Tenant Lanza and brood. (Lanza's lawyer promptly cried foul, claimed that the default decision was illegal because...
...Lover Famishes. If there was a love in Harriette's hectic life he was Lord Ponsonby, elegant, pale, "the handsomest man of his time." The wily huntress trapped him, held him three years. She claims to have torn up a letter in which he pledged her a life income of ?200, and she has only soft words for him in her Memoirs. After 15 years, she wrote her friend Lord Byron: "Don't despise me; nothing Lord Ponsonby has dearly loved can be vile or destitute of merit...
...first, during the early, hectic organizing drives, they lived in Detroit's Knickerbocker Apartments, a nest of friendly, frenzied C.I.O. officials. "We hardly ever slept at all," Reuther remembers. Thugs once beat him up in his own apartment. Later he moved to the north side, where a gun blast fired by a would-be assassin ripped into his right arm. Reuther lost blood copiously but never lost consciousness. "I decided," he said later, "to fight harder than ever...
...daughters prodded Goodie into taking Virginia on more romantic evenings, and in time, says Virginia, "he finally took a look at me. Up to then, he had just been talking to me." Goodie and Virginia were married last summer. Their honeymoon, on a borrowed yacht off Catalina Island, was hectic...