Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jake LaMotta, middleweight champion of the world up to last week, is a stolid, truculent fighter with a good punch and a Gibraltar jaw. In 95 fights, deep-chested Jake has never been knocked off his feet. For this combination of qualities, Jake is nicknamed "The Bronx Bull." It was Jake's misfortune last week to defend his title for 13 rounds against Sugar Ray Robinson, the welterweight* champion, a man for whom no completely adequate nickname has yet been invented. Pound for pound, Sugar Ray is the best fighter now wearing gloves. Meeting him in Chicago Stadium, Jake...
...Jake's strategy was the only one he ever knew: wade in and throw punches. The difficulty was connecting solidly. Once in a while Jake landed a hard one, and in the fifth, with a heavy right, he drew blood from Sugar's nose and made his hair stand on end. But a lot of other LaMotta punches, good when they left the shoulder, found the elusive Sugar going away...
...title by scoring a technical knockout over Jake La Motta in the 13th round of their scheduled 15 rounder in Chicago last night. Robinson vacates the Welterweight title by winning the Middleweight championship...
Boxing (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS Radio & TV). Jake La Motta v. Sugar Ray Robinson, for the middleweight championship...
...still rules her clan with the same firm but pliant hand that stirs the big pots forever simmering on her stove. She never runs out of soup for the neighbors, malapropisms for the audience, or schemes for rearranging other people's lives. This time, almost wrecking her husband Jake (Philip Loeb) in the process, she regroups a romantic quadrangle involving an overage suitor and his pink-cheeked fiancee, a middle-aged widow and an eligible young...