Word: langford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Langford. Lost in some giant's castoff overcoat, he looked so woebegone that a fight manager named Joe Woodman gave him a job sweeping up at the old Lenox Athletic Club...
Just Point Me Straight. That is how Sam Langford got mixed up with boxing; he lived with it all the rest of his life. When he began to eat regularly, Sam put on weight. Soon he was strong enough to ask Woodman to get him a fight. By the next winter, he was good enough to whip Lightweight Champion Joe Gans (who kept the title because Sam had weighed in 8 oz. over the limit). By the time he was 18, "the Boston Tar Baby" was so good that he could beat almost anyone who would give him a bout...
Married. Frances Langford, 39, radio and film star; and Ralph Evinrude, 48, vice chairman of Outboard, Marine & Mfg. Co.; she for the second time, he for the third; aboard his 118-ft. yacht Chanticleer as it cruised in Long Island Sound...
Divorced. By Frances Langford, 39, jukebox, radio and film songstress: Jon Hall, 42, sometime breechclouted star of South Sea island films (The Hurricane); after 17 years of marriage, no children; in Titusville...
...Kirkland House took office as president of WHRB after Tuesday's election of new executives. Michael D. Butler '56 of White Bear Lake, Miss and Kirkland House, was named vice-president. Stephen Warshall '56 of Mount Vernon, N.Y. and Lowell House is the new treasurer, and Cooper H. Langford '56 of Holyoke, Mass and Lowell House was elected clerk...