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...Tiger (real name: Richard Ihetu), Fullmer faced someone just as strong and a lot fresher. Of 59 fights since he turned professional in 1952, Tiger had won 21 by knockouts; not once had anyone knocked him off his own feet. Some of the opponents were easy marks-and his list of conquests included such improbable names as Black Power, Mighty Joe, Super Human Power and Easy Dynamite (whom he kayoed in one round). But he won the British Empire middleweight crown in 1958, earned a shot at a world title with sharp, knockout victories over Britain's Terry Downes...
...construction carpenters with sawed-off brains. Both are bucking for foreman, but in the main they are slapsticking away with casual finesse. Dickens cocks his wrist to look at his watch and pours coffee into his lap. The laughter isn't canned. Mrs. Dickens is a knockout. No one misses Charles...
...Terrible Hoax." In the astonished silence, Sonny Liston stalked around the ring. Then came the angry, roaring boos from the 18,894 spectators. Many had not seen the knockout punch; those who had felt cheated. In 258 locations across the U.S., some 500,000 people, who had paid between $4 and $10 each to witness the fight on closed-circuit TV, started filing out in bitter disgust. "It was the stinkingest exhibition I ever saw in my life," said one. At Brooklyn's Fox Theater, 3,800 people did not even have that to say; their screen went blank...
...many cases of disease and death due to smallpox, typhus, plague or malaria, he said, there would have been virtual panic: "All the medical and public health resources of the nation would have been mustered." Why had syphilis been allowed to make such a comeback after the near knockout of the 19503? Dr. Brown answered his own question...
...best stories are superb revelations of character, the lord of vernacular, the laureate of dull lives, crass hopes and mean minds. The second Lardner that counted was a fellow of short nights and wild swoops and demented plunges, of parody and nonsense, of non sequiturs that on occasion proved knockout blows. Perhaps the most inspired of these-a daunted parent's reply to a child's bedeviling question-provided the title for Shut Up, He Explained, which restores the second Lardner to print with a mixed bag containing glittering tinsel as well as genuine treasures...