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...woozily inaccurate way the film is a biography of Barney Ross (Cameron Mitchell), onetime lightweight (1933) and welterweight (1934-38) boxing champion of the world.* The story starts with Barney's famous victory over Jimmy McLarnin, describes his wastrel ways as champion, and soon comes to his downfall under the whirling assault of the human pinwheel, Henry Armstrong. In the next few years, as the film tells the story, Barney gambles away his restaurant business and (for the time being) the affection of his best girl (Dianne Foster), winds up in the Marines during World...
Some of the amateurs, who-included Jimmy McLarnin, ex-welterweight champion, and Ernie Nevers, Stanford's great All-America of 23 years ago, did better. Bing, proud of himself at getting across the abyss to the edge of the green, flubbed a second shot that most schoolkids could have made...
...still impeccably parted. He held the world's lightweight title from 1917 to 1925, when he retired undefeated because his mother told him to. Having lost most of his savings in the crash, he tried a comeback; it went the way of all boxers' comebacks and Jimmy McLarnin knocked...
...signed A. G. Ellis, M.D.: "First, how could anyone be elegant in a pair of those inelegant, nondescript outmoded golf trousers?" Nondescript, inelegant, outmoded indeed!!! Where has Dr. Ellis been all of his life? I know a few who look elegant in them, H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor, Jimmy McLarnin [see cut], MacDonald Smith, Gene Markey, and several million English golfers and hikers. I personally possess 15 suits with golf trousers and wear them in Hollywood, at every appropriate occasion...
...Louis, Schmeling, Gould, Kilpatrick, Roxborough, Johnston, Jacobs (bis), the Chicago promoters and the esteemed New York Athletic Commission intend to go right ahead with whatever they are doing in this heavyweight matter, 'de jure' or by 'force majeure' (Lincoln v. Douglas, 1860, U. S., and McLarnin v. Canzoneri, N. Y., 1936) and the whole action is thus left in escrow. Whatever the verdict, the promoters will pay costs...