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...after another, Listen packed them off to the hospital-one with badly bruised ribs, another with a cut that took eight stitches to close. "No more of this ain't gonna happen to me," muttered Alonzo Johnson, the seventh to quit. The hero of the hour was a pug named "Big Train" Lincoln, who managed to absorb 35 rounds of punishment before he spat out a tooth and sighed: "This is a hell of a way to make a living." Trimmed down to svelte...
...Effie's young friends at grey, sprawling Bailey's Beach Club; there were other dinners for "young adults"-and some for less young ones, such as Winston Churchill's ebullient son Randolph, 52, who flew over from London with an eight-week-old pug puppy he had brought for Janet Auchincloss's mother...
...relies on the triple diversions of the unblessed poor: booze, bickering and sex. Grandpa belts the brandy. Mum and Dad fight whenever Dad isn't swiving a neighbor lady, and Mum isn't being hauled off to the cooler for disorderly conduct. Their son is an ex-pug, his friend is a pimp, and so it goes. Unfortunately, the play does not go-either toward social comment or domestic disaster, or toward that uncommon probing of the commonplace, the drab and the degraded that unveils an expanse of spirit in a waste of shame. All that remains...
...released by Producer David Susskind in a maneuver aimed at the Academy Awards, is probably Quinn's best picture. As a punched-out prizefighter, croaking in the high voice of a man who has taken too many on the windpipe, he manages to make the swollen-featured, illiterate pug touchingly appealing. While making the picture. Quinn stood around in seeming torpor for long stretches be tween takes, to the amazement of Fellow Actor Jackie Gleason. Says Quinn defensively: "I can't turn it on and off. Gleason plucks it off the tree and eats it raw. I have...
...time, there were two fighters called McCoy, Selby was a good one, and the other pug, by comparison, was a glass-jawed failure. When fans referred to Selby, they called him "the real McCoy," adding a phrase to the American language...