Word: pugilistic
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...natives of West Africa's Gold Coast love the cinema. Especially do they love films with an African setting in which big Paul Robeson is supported by a small black cherub named Bob Papafio. The son of Big Papafio, an itinerant pugilist who fought himself out in England, Bob was discovered by Actor Robeson and given his first part in Sanders of the River. But Bob Papafio will make no more films for a while. Last week TIME'S resident correspondent in Liberia, Henry B. Cole, told...
...significance of Ellen Rogers is not in its writing but in the fact that here for the first time Farrell has contracted his view from social to individual conflicts, against the backdrop of a higher social milieu. He has succeeded after a fashion, like a strong but clumsy pugilist who beats down his opponent with 15 rounds of body blows...
Died. Peter Maher, 71, oldtime pugilist of bare-knuckle days, onetime welter, light and heavyweight champion of Ireland, sometime bartender, dock hand, burlesque attraction ; in Baltimore. Long on powerful wallops, short on skill, Oldster Maher fought and was drubbed by Bob Fitzsimmons, Kid McCoy, John L. Sullivan...
...first husband, Colonel John Jacob Astor, went down with the Titanic April 15, 1912, while U. S.-bound from their honeymoon; four months later she bore his posthumous son, John Jacob Astor. Her second husband: William Karl Dick, New York socialite (divorced 1933). Her third: Enzo Fiermonte, Italian pugilist (divorced...
Hubbard once toured ten weeks in vaudeville on the same bill with Lauder and Pugilist Jim Corbett. Chatting together one evening over a soft drink, Sir Harry wise cracked: "Mr. Hubbard is the only one of us who wears his make-up on the street...