Word: nicks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hollywood home life was having its usual ups & downs. After another spat with Martha Vickers, his third wife, quick-tempered Mickey Rooney, 30, huffed off to live with his mother for a while. After seven months of marriage, Elizabeth Taylor, 18, and Conrad ("Nick") Hilton Jr., 23, decided to try a separation test...
...deceiving guy," complained Fighter Nick Barone. "You think you're doing pretty good chasing him and banging him up on the inside. All of a sudden, you're tired. He hits you some sharp raps. You're on the floor and so fogged up you can't get up." Barone was trying to explain how it happened last week that Heavyweight Champion Ezzard Charles had knocked him down & out for the first time in Nick's career of 53 professional fights...
...Like Nick Barone himself, fight fans were reconsidering Ezzard's virtues last week. They included a poised defense that turned aside with glove or shoulder most of Barone's punches, a flickering left jab which, though it packed no knockout drops, did a thorough job of dulling his opponent's reflexes, and a stout right smash that put Barone away in round eleven. At 29, Ezzard Charles had a polished boxing style that was not Joe Louis', but was still mighty effective in its own way. It might be a long time before the fans...
High man for the Deacons was Waegner, who tallied 15 points. The Bunnies' top scorer was Ned Maroni with 10. Eliot's Nick Culolias was high scorer for the Elephants with 15 points...
Fred Gwynne as a member of the expedition is handy with his long lower jaw; Kerry Lyne, who is (or masquerading as) Gwynne's fiancee throws a hip in the Puddings best hairy-leg tradition. And both Gwynne and Lyne can sing. Nick Benton holds up the awful part of a Cambodian princess with a Brooklyn accent ("The Priestess with the Leastest on the Ball") and does remarkably well...