Word: patersons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...announced that he had turned promoter. His first venture, he said, would be a world's heavyweight championship bout between Jersey Joe Walcott and Cincinnati's Ezzard Charles, probably in Chicago, in June. Big Joe added that the match had the blessing of Abe Greene of Paterson, N.J., Commissioner of the National Boxing Association, and that the winner would be champion, at least in the 46 states (all but New York and Massachusetts) where N.B.A. controls fighting...
Other books of verse by older writers: Robinson Jeffers' crabbed The Double Axe, which most critics resented for its arrogant, unyielding isolationism; Paterson, Book II, a homey description of small-city life by William Carlos Williams, a New Jersey doctor who versifies between paying patients; Mark Van Doren's pleasant New Poems...
...Bronco Bill" Schindler, favorite of eastern midget auto-racing fans, drove his bucking doodlebug in Hinchliffe Stadium at Paterson, N.J. last week, fresh from victory two nights earlier at a track about 40 miles away. The crowd expected him to win again. As king of the eastern doodlebug circuit (53 wins in 1947, 35 so far in 1948), Bill Schindler is one of the sport's big money winners...
...Paterson, Schindler seemed to hold back. Time after time, as Veteran Chauffeur Bob Disbrow* hugged the pole out front, Schindler drove his black Offenhauser up alongside him, stomped on the foot-throttle and seemed about to pass. And each time in turn he eased off, slid back into the second slot again. At the race's end, he was still second man. When Schindler pulled up, swung the stump of his left leg over the side and reached for his crutches, his fans showed their disappointment, but Bronco Bill did not. "There was oil on that track," he explained...
...Paterson is expected to report on his and vice-chairman Richard Bolling's "stewardship" of AVC since the withdrawal of Charles G. Bolte last June--with special emphasis upon recent progress in integrating chapters with union locals...