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...California's Joey Lopes was as aggressive as he knew how to be against Lightweight Champion Joe Brown, but Brown's sharp counterpunches picked Lopes' attack to pieces, and Brown held on to his title with a T.K.O...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Dec. 16, 1957 | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

...Joey. A mildly anemic version of the full-blooded Broadway musical-with Frank Sinatra supplying a strong jolt of the glamour vitamin (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Dec. 9, 1957 | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

Tony has also provided some of television's most memorable moments, e.g., as a bewildered teen-ager in Joey, and RCA Victor is turning out disks of his throaty warblings (Moonlight Serenade and First Romance). Says Perkins with an apologetic grin: "I haven't had three days off in a row for the last two years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Dec. 9, 1957 | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

...Brown made his third successful defense of the world lightweight title last night by stopping challenger Joey Lopez in the 13th round of their Chicago Stadium bout...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Chisox Trade Minoso for Wynn | 12/5/1957 | See Source »

...only useful purpose of Pal Joey is to serve as a vehicle for songs like "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered," "I Could Write a Book," and "Zip" and for Frank Sinatra. Sinatra can give life even to the remarkedly poor lines he is given and he does, of course, sing very well. He is quite effective as a night-club singer who substitutes his conquests over women for a financially prosperous existence. When Sinatra tells an unwilling chorus girl, "If you knew what you were throwing away, you'd cut your throat," hundreds of middle-age matrons nod silent agreement...

Author: By Bryce E. Nelson, | Title: Pal Joey | 12/4/1957 | See Source »

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