Word: lightweights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like pease porridge in the pot, the Louis-Conn $100-a-seat fiasco was nine days old. As though his cold porridge had been piping hot, Promoter Mike Jacobs last week dished up another serving: another of his unbeatable Negro champions, Lightweight Bob Montgomery, defending his crown for the first time since 1944. This time Mike priced his ringside seats at a quiet $17. The fans stayed away and missed a real fight...
Last week a new British Royal governor, pink-faced Sir Henry Knight, 60, who looks like a retired lightweight champion, punched out his challenge to dacoity-"Burma's Public Enemy No. 1." He had two jobs in Burma, which he linked together (perhaps unfairly) with a threat; his soldiers would "take immediate action against people who make subversive speeches" because "in some cases there is a direct connection between subversive activity and dacoity...
Boxing (Fri. 10 p.m., ABC). Lightweight title bout between Champ Bob Montgomery and Challenger Allie Stolz...
...nondescript Welshman, who with the help of Johnston's imagination and a dime-store bandanna emerged as Gypsy Daniels, eldest son of a gypsy king who lived at the foot of Rhondda Mountain in Wales. Jimmy also wowed New York's Chinatown with Ah Wong, a "Chinese lightweight" whose real name was Mickey Mulligan...
...Vectolite, a powerful lightweight magnetic material, made by compressing powdered iron rust and cobalt oxide, used in sensitive aircraft controls...