Word: prizefighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lobbies & Elevators. The whole show was not in Convention Hall. It overflowed into the streets of downtown Philadelphia and eddied through hotel lobbies, was dammed up in frantically clogged elevators and stairways. It was given direction by the politicking in hotel rooms; it was given the air of a prizefight by the numberless press conferences...
...purists were fighting uphill. Most of Quebec's women say "lipstick" for rouge a levres, and "Cutex" (a trade name) for any nail polish-vernis a angles. In the sports arena, their menfolk scream: L'arbitre est un robber! A prizefight announcer cries: Le champion a knockoute son adversaire. And French Canadians of both sexes grin as they say II faut se watcher...
...pick the "hero" and the "villain" after the show begins. They engage in preliminary cuffing and hair-pulling while they "feel out the house" to see what happy ending is desired. One prominent promoter explained last week: "You never know beforehand when you're gonna see a lousy prizefight. In wrestling, we give you guaranteed entertainment...
Eileen Gibson, an actress of sorts, had been playing Lorna, the prizefight manager's floozy in a South African production of Golden Boy. Some testified that she was something like Lorna in real life. Others testified that she was given to inexplicable bouts of hysteria and fainting; that she had said she was pregnant; that she had accepted her fare home and ?350 from a nightclub owner...
Body and Soul. John Garfield and Lilli Palmer in an exciting prizefight picture (TIME...