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Because of her tremendous, sharp-beaked nose, like the prow of a war galley (see cut, p. 79), the Romans were easily led to believe that Cleopatra had to hold her men with knockout love drops. The kind of men she seduced made her sex appeal even more mysterious. Tall, black-eyed, bald Caesar "had known the whole gamut of indulgence," three or four faithless marriages. Yet Caesar, already married, defied hostile public opinion to keep Cleopatra openly in Rome with their illegitimate son during his last three years, introduced a law permitting him to marry several wives...
With a championship thus placed in his grasp, Boxer Armstrong, whose deadly knockout record has already convinced most sportswriters that he is a miniature Joe Louis, last week proceeded to perform that chore. Armstrong and Sarron larruped each other fiercely, if without notable boxing skill, for five rounds. Then Sarron's legs began to buckle. In the sixth, as Sarron folded his arms helplessly over his hairy chest, Armstrong pummeled him harder than ever. Near the end of the round, Armstrong suddenly let loose a long, looping right to the jaw, and Sarron, for the first time...
...left hook opened a long gash over Thil's right eye. By the next round so much blood was running down Thil's face and trickling through the hair on his chest that Referee Arthur Donovan stepped in, gave Apostoli Thil's title on a technical knockout...
Champion Louis had entered the ring a favorite at odds ranging from 5-to-1 to 7-to-1, and the odds generally quoted that he would win by a knockout were 5-to-2. Most sportswriters had reasoned that, although Louis was vulnerable, especially to a right to the jaw, an opponent to stand up against him had to be able to hit hard and must not be afraid of him. Braddock had not been afraid but he had not been able to hit hard, so he was knocked out. Before the fight, Farr's stock reached almost...
...Tommy Farr, British heavyweight boxing champion: a bout with Walter Neusel of Germany; by a third-round knockout; in London. Heavyweight Farr is now expected to fight Max Schmeling this summer...