Word: punches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Punch with Tchaikovsky...
Alcoholism has not reached Harvard. In the summer, each week, the students gather in the Yard--a word which be special privilege replace the "campus" of other colleges--to drink fruit punch and listen to the symphonies of Tchaikovsky of Brahms...
...drained by percentage men and hangers-on, broken by his own improvidence, Louis now owes a staggering $1,210,789 in U.S. income-tax arrears for 1946-51. New Jersey's Democratic Representative Alfred Sie-minslci is appealing to the White House to cancel or soften the Sunday punch thrown at Louis by the revenooers...
...awkward, hardheaded slugger, willing to take a punch to land one. But when he landed, his opponent usually dropped. Rocky never really bothered to learn how to box; he never really had to. Without losing a fight, he battered his way up through the heavyweight ranks. It took him only eight rounds to dispose of Joe Louis and ruin the comeback of that puffy remnant of a great champ. Later, he won the title by flattening Heavyweight Champion Joe Walcott in the 13th round, after being knocked down in the third for the first time in his professional life...
Died. Charles Muggeridge, 20, son of Malcolm Muggeridge, editor of Britain's famed humor magazine Punch; after he was hurled 300 yds. down a rocky face of Peak Brévent by an avalanche while on a skiing trip; near Chamonix, France...