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...crackdown in the manner of those launched against the oil, aluminum and automobile-finance businesses. Instead, in an unprecedented apology and explanation attached to its complaint, the Government took the manner of a family dentist remarking, as he starts extracting a sore tooth from a small boy's jaw, "I am sorry if this hurts, but it can't be helped and you'll feel better when it's out. So please hold still...
Next day on Broadway, slow-motion newsreels revealed what had actually happened during those incredible 124 seconds. Schmeling was knocked down three times in the fastest and most furious attack in ring history. No foul blow was struck. The decisive punch was a violent right to the jaw (after five rapid hooks) that landed so squarely Schmeling's hair shook like a mop. The body blows that followed, when Schmeling was hanging glassy-eyed on the ropes, were just for good measure. The famed kidney punch, by this time almost an international incident, was a blow to the short...
Another right to the jaw, another left, another right, and still another right, and still another. . . . The 30,000 spectators shrieked to have the fight stopped. They had gone to Madison Square Garden's Long Island Bowl prepared to see a lively boxing match between 28-year-old Welterweight Champion Barney Ross, who had never been knocked out in ten years of prizefighting, and Challenger Henry Armstrong, 25-year-old Negro, who had knocked out 35 of his 37 opponents in the past 18 months. But they were not prepared to see one of the most brutal beatings...
...force thy notice upon him. . . ." From a hymn to the Nile: "Praise to thee, O Nile, that issuest forth from the earth and comest to nourish the dwellers in Egypt. Secret of movement, a darkness in the daytime. . . . When he arises earth rejoices and all men are glad; every jaw laughs and every tooth is uncovered." From a poet 20 centuries before Christ: ."Would I had phrases that are not known, utterances that are strange, in new language that hath not been used, free from repetition, not an utterance which hath grown stale, which men of old have spoken...
Stuff for sturdy stomachs only, The Fight for Peace is a sardonic documenting of the worldwide toll war has taken since the War to End War took 8,538,000 lives, maimed 21,000,000. Its purpose polemic, the film studs its narrative with jaw-jutting shots of Mussolini, pose after pose of Hitler giving an almost epicene version of a Nazi salute, bike most articulate protestants against the way of the world, the makers of The Fight for Peace tell only what they want to tell, but their film hits home with a sickening thud. Some memorable scenes...