Word: marcell
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After many a summer, a foreign fighter reached the U.S. without bringing along a glass chin and a pair of collapsible knees. In smoke-hazy Madison Square Garden, hairy-chested Marcel Cerdan, middleweight champion of Europe, danced out from his corner last week and swung like a Normandy windmill. George Abrams, one of the top four U.S. middleweights, looked surprised and swung back. For the next ten rounds they fought it out. Then they waited vacant-eyed and with blood trickling down their faces while the ballots were collected. The winner, to no one's surprise but Abrams...
Polite, 159-lb. Marcel Cerdan, already 30, never wears himself out training. In wartime Europe, where there was no time for the elaborate kind of training that U.S. fighters indulge in, Marcel's manager would hold up his hands, palms held outward, and let Marcel punch at them. Marcel trained like that when the Germans in occupied France ordered him to fight José Ferrer,* the Spanish champion, in 1942. He knocked out the Spaniard in 82 seconds, shortly afterward turned up in North Africa and joined the Free French navy. Among Marcel Cerdan's 96 victories (against...
Tough Like Hell. The U.S. hoped to rush a helicopter and a crew across the Atlantic in time to be of service; it was ordered back from the Azores when word arrived that Swiss guides, Alpinists and planes had the situation well in hand. Swiss Army Private Marcel Etter, one of a party of 73 who made the tortuous ascent, told a TIME correspondent...
Attempting-and persisting in-production of such a pretentious movie, while the Nazis strutted through Pathé's Joinville studio, was the amazing accomplishment of France's smoothest movie team: small, elegant Director Marcel Carne and tousled Writer Jacques Preévert (Hôtel du Nord, Le Jour se Léve). U.S. moviegoers, unaccustomed to concentrated mixtures of sex, cynicism and murky symbolism, may enjoy the picture's sharply witty individual scenes and wonder what they all add up to. The overall theme might boil down to this: "Life is a tragicomedy, whether viewed from...
...Welldigger's Daughter (Siritzky International) is not the best movie the French ever turned out, but it was made by the same skilled hands (writer-director-producer Marcel Pagnol) and features a couple of the same players as the successful Baker's Wife...