Word: hoodlum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Davis' novel) is the kind of play that particularly needs everything in it done right-and where almost nothing is. It tells of a well-brought-up 18-year-old girl, played by Henry Fonda's promising 22 -year-old daughter Jane, who is assaulted by two hoodlums and raped by one of them. The dribbling scenes that follow and that involve the girl's upset parents, her inquisitive kid sister, her caddish boy friend, the guilty hoodlum, an uncharitable community and the girl's own hysterical qualms, do very little to justify what gave rise...
...Declaring themselves disgusted with the "hoodlum influence" in boxing, California's State Athletic Commission pulled out of the National Boxing Association, threatened to set up an independent boxing association of NBA dissidents with authority enough to root out underworld figures...