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...battle for control of the New York Central turned into a standup, knockdown fight last week. Squared away on one side was suave, ambitious Robert R. Young, 57, whose mastery of high finance and knowledge of corporate infighting won him control of the $65 million Alleghany Corp. in 1941. Young boldly demanded to be named chairman of the Central's board because he owned 100,200 of its shares (which he claimed was the largest individual holding) and because he had the support of the 100.000 shares owned by his associate. Allan P. Kirby, and could also vote...
Hastily, the show's organizers snatched off the drapery; quick as a wink, students from a nearby seminary for student priests rushed out and re-covered the offending desnudos. The organizers went back into action; for several minutes it was a knockdown affair between strippers and drapers. In time's nick, before the Minister of Education showed up, the strippers won, and the dignitaries started off to inspect the sculpture. No sooner had they passed than the students returned, so that on the walk back, all that the visitors could see were ghostly, sheeted shapes...
...Used to be 48 chest, 38 waist,' he said. He bought a pistol: 'Good around camp for small game, friends and intruders.' . . . [Restaurateur] Toots Shor told of Hemingway and Hugh Casey, the late Dodger pitcher, trading blows while standing in an open doorway in Havana. A knockdown every punch. Papa won. He never even lost a tooth. 'Spitting teeth is for suckers,' he said ... He hailed a cab. 'Sutton Place South,' he told the driver, then spoke some words in Italian. 'You an Italian boy?' the driver asked, and he said...
...ribbing American movies.** This Italian production, with English dubbed in, is a satire on the type of superspectacle exemplified by Hollywood's Quo Vadis. If Quo Vadis was one of the costliest ($6,500,000) movies ever made, O.K. Nero is certainly one of the silliest. It has knockdown clowning, pratfalls, songs, dances, and an existentialist ballet. Constantly rowdy, it is only intermittently funny...
...that night, with 6,500 fans rooting for him, Keeny, his nose smashed, his left hand sprained, came off the canvas after a sixth-round, eight-count knockdown and won a unanimous decision over his old tormentor, Tommy Umeda. By week's end Keeny was swamped with offers from Chicago, Honolulu. Mexico and the Philippines. But Keeny, hoping he has the habit licked at last, is setting his sights on the top. Says Keeny: "I'd really like to fight in the Garden. That's it - the big apple...