Word: mike
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night five months ago, after knocking out Jersey Joe Wolcott, Joe Louis mumbled into a mike through swollen lips, "For my mother-this is for her-tonight was my last fight." Since then, Joe had been thinking it over. He still kept on needing money, and voices kept reminding him that all he had to do was say the word and collect $500,000 or so. Last week, Joe said the word. He would defend his heavyweight title, for the 26th time, next June, probably against the least bad of three unpromising contenders-Lee Savold, Ezzard Charles or Joe Baksi...
...kind of a guy who would gladly travel to the Opera House and pay the price of admission just to see Bobby Clark flick ashes in a poor play. Last night I did just that. I saw Mike Todd's latest, a trinket--it looks like about a third of a million dollars' worth of trinket--called "As the Girls Go." The show was lavish, polished, populated with every pretty girl this side of Billy Rose--and dull...
...Mike Scully, Crimson left fullback, who suffered an injured ankle against Cornell, played the entire game almost scoring in the fourth period on a low liner booted from 25 yards...
...hospital at Edmonton, doctors treated his skull fracture, set his shattered arm, put him under a metal-framed tent to keep the bed clothing off his frostbitten feet and knees. To his father (also an aviator), who had flown in from Washington, dauntless little Mike told what had happened...
With his father at his bedside, Mike was winning his fight for life. He also won another fight, important to an eleven-year-old-he was still dry-eyed as he said: "Dad, it's going to be awful lonesome...