Word: lightweights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Many fabricators would prefer a lightweight metal, if it is as cheap as magnesium promises to be, to any plastic...
...sporting press has found a "little Joe Louis," lightweight Ray Robinson. Young Robinson, a Harlem "hep-cat" just a half-inch under six feet tall, is neither little nor does he bear much resemblance to the world's heavyweight champion. But the way the skinny 139-pounder brushed off onetime Welterweight Champion Fritzie Zivic-steel-tough, ring-wise and seven pounds heavier-in a ten-round match at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week showed that another Negro was punching his way into ring history. In 115 fights, amateur and professional, Robinson has never been licked...
...paper the odds are in favor of Bus Curwen's or Carl Seligman's bunch of huskies, with Johnny Abbot and Frank Cunningham leading the field in the lightweight division. Last year's Varsity stroke, Curwen has behind him a string of four men who rowed on their Freshman eight, while Seligman, who paced the second Yardling boat two years ago, also has four ex-Freshmen sweep-swingers...
...audiences have fallen off since Maestro Arturo Toscanini left the orchestra in 1936. "The Old Man" well earned his $50,000 a year by his hard riding of the Philharmonic, which was then as fast and tautnerved as a fine race horse. Regular conductor now is a lightweight, Anglo-Italian John Barbirolli. For the birthday year, he is being spelled by eight guest conductors.* But eight jockeys are no good for one horse. Once again last week critics marked the orchestra's sloppy form...
After a year of personal grooming (during which time Joe's terrific fists knocked out nearly every amateur he faced), Roxborough took his protege to Chicago, got wily Jack Blackburn, onetime Negro lightweight, to groom him for a professional ring career. "Joe didn't like to fight at first," says Blackburn. "But he was a natural fighter, easy to teach, and he learned more about the fight business in a month than most fighters learn in six months...