Word: pugilistically
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Into a new career-or at least so he hoped-went pixy Pugilist Archie Moore. In San Diego, Calif., Democrat Moore announced his candidacy for the State Assembly in November's election. Although sometimes chary about defending his light-heavyweight boxing championship, Archie promised if elected he "will be a fighting assemblyman...
...popularity since his death, Mark Twain is now on the crest of a revival that is spreading fast through show business and publishing. M-G-M is about to release a wide-screen version of Huckleberry Finn (with Eddie Hodges as Huck and Pugilist Archie Moore as Jim). Before season's end a total of four major TV shows will have documented or dramatized various parts of the writer's life. From Cambridge, Mass, to Berkeley, Calif., presses have been rolling out books on Twain. Actor Hal Holbrook has already given more than 1,200 performances...
...Prince & Pugilist. Drawn by the deep, the elite free divers range from Lord Louis Mountbatten and his royal nephew Prince Philip to Heavyweight Champion Ingemar Johansson, from Russian Nuclear Physicist Bruno Pontecorvo to Gary Cooper and U.S. Rocketeer Wernher von Braun...
...prince or pugilist, the underwater world stirs strange rapture. Writers of ages past, from the author of the Book of Jonah to Matthew Arnold, few of whom had ever been under water in their lives, have been inspired to imaginative fantasies about life in the depths. One modern writer who has been there is Clare Boothe Luce, playwright turned diplomat. In a memorably lyrical series for SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, she reported her experiences: "What fishes like flowers, what stones like trees. The coral reefs are a golden girdle of dead and living cities, which dwarf in their age and beauty...
...unfriendly inscription. The story grew hazier from then on, but most agreed that Mitchum had poured a smoky slug of Irish whisky over somebody else's head, butted his new adversary on the jaw, got kicked in the face in reply. Next morning Pugilist Mitchum turned up for moviemaking with a cut nose, fast-blackening eye, aching jaw and a wry admission that "he certainly hurt...