Word: legging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beau Jack, 25, twice the world's lightweight champion, was game. He braced himself on his good leg, tried to slug it out. The second time he went down, he stayed there, helpless. The referee, and Tony's manager (see cut), helped Beau from the ring, his face clearly showing his agony. Had the promoters, anxious to cash in on a good thing, killed the golden goose? Oh, no, said one doctor; Beau could be patched up once more, in "ten months to a year, if no complications develop...
...Times's Sunday Editor Markel (see above) had several ready reasons why nearly four times as many people read the tabloid Daily News as the Times. The Times scorns gossip, leg art and comics; but the fact is that even on the Times's home ground-the important news-the Daily News often says it better...
...explored the wildernesses of Turkestan, Northern India and Iraq. Later he became a vice president of Curtiss-Wright, displayed company planes in Europe, Siam, Turkey and China. In World War II, he became a colonel in the Ninth Air Force, fought at Cassino and Anzio, was shot through the leg in the invasion of Normandy...
...going into the story-telling relay with a slight two point margin, got blood with the last pound of push out of all his men, but particularly Walt Bullard. This hardworking freestyler took first in the 220, second to Dick Hartung in the 100, and swam a creditable second leg of the ill fated relay...
...M.G.M. has wisely injected a bit of pathos into the comedy. Cast as a well-meaning, but deadly boor, Red Skelton takes "The Showoff" through a series of heart breaking mishaps with amazing dexterity and an almost embarrassing reality. A living portrait of the guy who would break his leg while putting on a hat, Skelton uses his comedy style to give moviegoers something funny and at the same time touching. It's a long haul between laughs in the first attraction at the U.T. and for those who don't like Adolph Menjon well enough to sweat...