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...None of the musicians look at him." The compulsion to say what he thinks has led the stick-thin drummer (5 ft. 8 in., 125 Ibs.) into a lot of free-swinging battles. He has thrown punches at his sergeant in the Marine Corps, where he had been a judo instructor, and at Frank Sinatra, who is now one of his closest friends. Today, his heart condition keeps him limited to an occasional "one-or-two-punch thing in the parking...
...Here's the Mail." Sadler is probably the closest-cropped, ruggedest (Black Belt in judo), and most musically illiterate performer on the pop charts. But give him a subject and a guitar and he comes up with a song in ten minutes. RCA Victor arrangers transcribe the work for him which he describes as "kind of intermediate between ballad and country-western, with maybe a little calypso." Then, with cracking, lackluster tenor and a backing of RCA trumpets, or fiddle and humming voices, he croons away. For the most part, the ballads are banal and ridden with sentimentality ("Here...
...course, some go in for more aggressive sports like lacrosse, field hockey, and judo. Why do they do it? "The idea of being able to throw someone just appeals to me," says judo captain Julia Nowlin, a Ph.D. candidate in projective geometry. "Doing something with a ball seems kind of silly, but if you can throw somebody, it's not contrived; it's real...
...five female judo artists are part of Radcliffe's eight-girl judo program, which was started in 1961. The club, the first undergraduate judo club for women in the Northeast, is a member of the Judo Black Belt Foundation of America...
...Cliffie enthusiasts train for three hours a week at the Bay State Judo Club in Newton and are coached by Dorothy Douglas, an honest-to-God black belt...