Word: kid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that time Roxborough was on the verge of backing another up-&-coming Negro light-heavyweight, John Henry Lewis of Arizona. But after seeing Joe box a few rounds, Roxborough forgot about John Henry. "What's your name, boy?" he asked the shy, shambling kid. "Joe Louis Barrow," the kid replied. "That's too long, I'll just call you Joe Louis...
Because of his deadpan, most white folks assume that Joe Louis is a lugubrious fellow. Actually, he is as mischievous as a child. "When he was a kid," his mother grins, "I near wore his backside out with a strap. He slept in the same bed with two of his brothers and it was worth my life to keep them out of devilment." Away from the spotlight, which he loathes, Joe still likes his simple fun. Early mornings at training camp, he often routs everyone out of bed by pulling off their blankets. Jogging along the country roads, his tongue...
...Education--that's the whole damn thing," urged Canada Lee, heavy set negro lead in Richard Wright and Paul Green's "Native Son," as he walked down Tremont Street toward the Majestic Theatre stage door. "When I was a little kid I can remember white kids in the neighborhood would shout 'nigger' as I walked down the Pavement. Hello Miss Mahoney, I hear you're the belle of Boston--" he stopped to talk for a moment with a lean, grey haired old lady who passed him walking toward Boylston. "Today when I go 'Long the street I know that...
...Cardinals had just brought up from their Houston farm. Dodger fans had seen enough of one left-handed Cardinal rookie, Ernie White, who had moidered their Bums in the first game of last week's series-to chalk up his 16th victory for St. Louis. The Pollet kid looked even better. In his major-league debut fortnight ago, he pitched a four-hit victory over the Boston Braves. Against the Dodgers last week he matched mighty Whit Wyatt pitch for pitch until the very last inning. Three days later, his astounding repertory of curves, fast balls, sinkers and whatnots...
...best amateur golfers in the U.S. include a New Jersey printer named Billy Dear, Patty Berg's kid brother Herman, onetime world's No. 1 Tennist Ellsworth Vines and hard-boiled Jim Oleska, a Brooklyn cop with a cross-handed grip. Billy Dear was out of play last week because Mrs. Dear is expecting a little Dear this week. The rest of these low-scorers and 146 others who survived sectional qualifying tests met in Omaha for the 45th, most upsetting and least sportsmanlike U.S. Amateur golf championship...