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Ring Announcer Don Dunphy, who has called the blow-by-blow in over 2,000 fights during a 37-year career, insists: "Certainly Ali's the fastest heavyweight champion of all time. Joe Louis had fast hands, but not fast feet. Rocky was a bit of a plodder." Joe Frazier, who ought to know, credits Ali's savvy: "He knows how to psych most of his men out." Veteran Manager Gil Clancy pays homage to the post-exile Ali's distinguishing characteristic: "He can absorb a punch better than any fighter who ever lived." Still, there is a tendency among...
...barn accident-the circumstances of which have never been explained-and had to be destroyed. New York State racing officials suspect that it was Lebón that was destroyed, not Cinzano, and that Cinzano, a blue-chip colt, was run as Lebón-a raced-out plodder who had sold at auction for $600 a few weeks before Gerard purchased...
...young clerk notes: "Engaged at the office all day on a sonnet - surreptitiously." Two years later he writes his future wife: "It is such an odd thing that bright boys should be expect ed to be successful men . . . Brightness disillusions." So the bright boy becomes the plodder, then the secret craftsman who will not publish his first book of po etry until the age of 44. The material world gains in importance and the rare leisure hours are steeped in philosophy. The demise of Stevens' mother is a pre sentiment of Sunday Morning. "Death is the mother of beauty...
Browning had often looked inept against Bailey-a local plodder who was simply outclassed by the courtroom celebrity brought in from Boston by the wealthy Hearsts. Yet Judge Carter did not see it that way at all. While the jury was out deciding Patty's fate, Carter thought back over the long and emotional course of the trial and praised the skills of both Bailey and Browning. "I always say, 'God, please send me a couple of good lawyers,' " he told TIME. "I much prefer it to trying a case in which you have one good lawyer...
...moment, Jackson was what he has rarely been before: charismatic. It was the kind of transformation that political victory can work. For most of his long congressional career, Scoop has been a dutiful plodder, wooden and uncomfortable with crowds. He spoke in what was dubbed a "Movietone News voice"-a monotonous, stentorian delivery that politicians employed before public address systems were invented. But in Massachusetts, perhaps sensing victory early on, he began to unbend and even modulate his voice. Crowds became a challenge rather than a concern. When antibusing hecklers forced him off the podium at a Boston stop...