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...sure," objects Muhammad Ali's old trainer, Angelo Dundee. "I think he may be bum-rapped as a one-arm bandit. He sets you up with the right. I give Cooney a good chance. They say he's clumsy. Well, a banger like that stressing power from the port side ain't going to look like no ballerina. Doesn't everyone know what's going to happen in this fight? Cooney's going to knock Holmes out early, or he's not going to survive the stretch. One way or another, it's going to be a knockout. Period...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Puncher Goes for It: Gerry Cooney and Larry Holmes | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

...along so well that they finished off six bottles of champagne between poses. Dolly, 31, who admires musclemen "for their spunk and endurance," was very impressed with Arnold. Arnold, 30, found Dolly "the nicest weight I have lifted in a long time." Says he: "I did a one-arm curl with her. She was about 110 Ibs., good resistance. My biceps felt very good after that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 15, 1977 | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

...girls are among the prettiest dancers around; the men are tall and athletic. John Meehan, who plays Count Danilo, the rich widow's reluctant lover, is positively coltish. He carries off the evening with blithe bravado, swinging Dame Margot around in reckless waltzes or flinging her high with one-arm lifts. Meehan will never be the partner Help mann was, but he embodies the insouciance that is the production's most en dearing quality. This Merry Widow is not what it aspires to be - an evocation in dance of old Vienna- but it makes an amiable evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Demiballet | 6/21/1976 | See Source »

...Pass, a western based on a novel by Adventure Author Alistair Maclean. At one point in the action, both men hung by their hands from the train roof and struggled to pull themselves back on board. "I pulled myself up with both arms, but I saw Bronson do a one-arm pull that astonished me," said Moore afterward. "He was amazing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 5, 1975 | 5/5/1975 | See Source »

...Goldwater bandwagon came rolling into the convention city. And behind the wheel, breezy and relaxed as a one-arm driver who is supremely confident of conquest in his courtship, sat Barry Goldwater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Back with the Old Barry | 7/17/1964 | See Source »

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