Word: joey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Albert K. Hannum, an engineer of Willoughby, Ohio, recently wrote to me about Josefina ("Joey") Guerrero. He said that it's about time for a progress report on Joey...
...some 4,000 people who wrote to Joey after TIME told her story (July 19, 1948), you remember her heroic work as an underground agent in the Japanese-run Philippines. She smuggled food, medicine and messages to U.S. prisoners of war, mapped enemy fortifications for the Air Force, once walked 56 miles through lines of trigger-happy sentries to report a mine field where the 37th Division was scheduled to attack Manila. Though she took many long chances, the Japanese never caught up with her because they were always afraid to search her; through her ragged blouse they could...
...Voice of the Turtle"; on July 30th Constance Bennett begins in "The Skylark"; on August 6th Arthur Teacher appears in "Clutterbuck"; and if you're thinking of a week on the Cape after summer school is over, you can see Carol Bruce in Rodgers and Hart's "Pal Joey" which begins on August 27th...
...Workin' at Our Trade." The victory brought Murphy just what he was looking for: a probable shot at the light-heavyweight (175-lb.) title held by Joey Maxim. The probability also goes to show the tangled state of U.S. boxing. Only four months ago, Seattle's Harry ("Kid") Matthews knocked the stuffing out of Murphy (one judge scored it 8-2). Since then, Matthews has knocked out two heavyweights and last week, far from the glamour of Yankee Stadium, he was knocking out another, Heavyweight (210 Ibs.) Bill Peterson in a Boise, Idaho arena. But Matthews...
...Robinson is already looking past Turpin to another title-the light heavyweight championship now held by Joey Maxim. Robinson says he will not fight Heavyweight Champion Ezzard Charles under any circumstances. But Maxim is something else again. Though Robinson is too politic to mention it, the light heavyweight crown is the only major world title not held by a Negro. Besides, says Good Businessman Ray Robinson, "it's a good money match...