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...fear, bombast and bullying." Then there is Vivian, who never does find her rich old man. Instead, she gets slapped around by a sailor. "His body closed in on her and there was a brief violent scuffle, with Vivian pounding at him, trying to bring her knee up to jab him." Later, of course, "she closed her eyes, sagging against him like a coat on a hook...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Kathleen's Cloakroom | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

...furious skill at dishing it out. Round after round, Challenger Carmen Basilio, 30, plodded in to belt his man from heart to haircut, and Robinson fired back with deadly effect. Basilio's head bobbed like a light punching bag at the end of Robinson's jackhammer jab. He started the fight sullen with 5 o'clock shadow; he finished looking like a man who had stood too close to his razor. The bell was his biggest ally when his knees came unhinged at the end of three different rounds. But still he came on, and Sugar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Oct. 7, 1957 | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

...well, maybe you get another couple of fights, and if you don't, maybe you're through.' Five or six years ago this kid wouldn't have done this to me-step in with a couple of feints and jab me on the nose or mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Defeated | 8/5/1957 | See Source »

...instead of 8-oz. gloves for their title tight in Denver, Zulueta's manager, Hymie ("The Mink") Wallman, screamed like a mink. Light gloves, insisted Hymie, were made to order for a slugger like Brown. They seemed to be. Brown waded into Zulueta's flicking jab for 13 rounds, then dropped him for a count of nine. The challenger went down again in the 15th, and Slugger Joe Brown held on to his title with a T.K.O...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Jul. 1, 1957 | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...Congratulations to Cartoonist Osborn [Jan. 28] for his jab at the atrociously crass '57 cars-following fast on the clashed colors of '56. Ugh! MARCIA MASCIA Port Chester...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 18, 1957 | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

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