Word: prizefight
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Gossip Monger. In 1926, Ed saw an attractive brunette sitting at a nightclub table with some friends of his. He joined them and met 20-year-old Sylvia Weinstein. He promptly invited Sylvia to a heavyweight fight between Jack Sharkey and Harry Wills. It was the first prizefight Sylvia had ever seen, and she recalls that she tried hard to like it. Three and a half years later, Ed and Sylvia were married in the rectory of a Roman Catholic Church in West Orange, N.J. Sylvia has remained a Jew, but their daughter Betty has been raised a Catholic. Meanwhile...
...making of an American than about the making of steel. Author White sometimes puts his hero through private experiences at a whirling pace. Within a ten-page stretch. Peter meets and rebuffs his first American prostitute, goes inside his first American church (a Roman Catholic cathedral), sees his first prizefight and enters his first speakeasy. Seething with ambition, he decides that love is off-limits and only strays once, into a brief affair with his plump landlady...
...Limits (Paramount) casts durable Funnyman Bob Hope as a prizefight manager turned military policeman. Hope tangles with a frozen-faced sergeant (Eddie Mayehoff) and an apoplectic general, gets seasick watching his protege, MP Mickey Rooney, box on board a battleship, masterminds a championship fight via walkie-talkie and falls for Rooney's beautiful aunt (Marilyn Maxwell), easily the best-looking aunt of the year. Making brief personal appearances in the picture: Bing Crosby, Jack Dempsey, ex-Footballer Tom Harmon. The result, though no main movie event, is a fairly entertaining, lightweight preliminary...
Overnight, Jim Jeffries became the first of a series of "white hopes," toward whom the prizefight gentry looked to uphold the "superiority of the Caucasian race...
...coerce a performance out of them. If he could get a song on Kate Smith's radio program he had done a good week's work. His pitch might run from "Please play this song-if only to ease the pain of my ulcers" to "What prizefight or show would you like to see?" Although such a plugger was usually no musician, he was blood brother to the tired-looking gent behind music-store counters, pumping out sheet music on the piano...