Word: prizefighting
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Body and Soul. John Garfield and Lilli Palmer in an exciting prizefight picture (TIME...
Body & Soul. John Garfield and Lilli Palmer in an exciting prizefight picture (TIME...
Body and Soul. John Garfield and Lilli Palmer in an exciting prizefight picture (TIME...
Sergeant Joe Louis, who left the prizefight ring in 1942 as undefeated heavyweight champion of the world, returned from an overseas tour with plans for his future. The Brown Bomber declared he would go back to boxing after the war, to defend his title "at least once...
Captain Joseph ("Joe") Gould, 48, cigar-mangling peacetime prizefight manager, whose most famed charge was ex-Heavyweight Champion James J. Braddock, went down for the count before an Army general court-martial. He was found guilty, as an Army contract officer, of conspiring to defraud the U.S. of $200,000 on Army contracts, sentenced to three years at hard labor, a $12,000 fine and dismissal from the service. Said one of his associates along "Jacob's Beach," hoary Manhattan rendezvous for the pugilistic trade: "He never should of done it during...