Word: punches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Have Another Drink. One punch Carter struck was against a plan to build a new railroad terminal for Fort Worth that was no better than Dallas'. Carter stoutly opposed the plan, one evening got a call from Railroad Magnate Matthew C. Brush in New York, who said: "Well, we've just voted to build your damn Union Station. We're going to put up $11 million for the biggest station and shops and terminal in the Southwest. And now we're all drinking to your health. What do you say about that?" Amon Carter promptly replied...
During the day, the Phi Beta Kappa parade and exercises and "The Undergraduate," 1930's second symposium, combined with luncheon and cocktails at Harkness Graduate Commons. Tours, punch parties, swimming, and other sports occupied reunion children, while the adults attended a memorial service...
...sports pages of U.S. newspapers few holds are barred. Sportswriters swing freely when criticizing the performance of athletes, managers and promoters, rarely worry about libel suits. Last week this free-swinging confidence was rabbit-punched in a libel suit against the Hearst Publishing Co. and its Los Angeles Examiner sports columnist, Vincent X. Flaherty. Two years ago Flaherty fell to reminiscing, in print, about the fight in 1941 when Heavyweight Lou ("Cosmic Punch") Nova lost by a six-round technical knockout to Champion Joe Louis. Wrote Flaherty: "The cowardly [appearance of] Nova was like a frightened, screaming child at vaccination...
...spectacular bum [whose] challenge consisted of retreating in hot haste the entire fight," wrote Boston Record Columnist Dave Egan. Added the New York Daily Mirror's Dan Parker: "All Nova showed against the champ was timidity. The fight was . . . an utter stinker ... As to the 'cosmic punch,' Lou doesn't know how to spell. The 's' doesn't belong in the word...
...read what the sportswriters had written about him. It was just as well, remarked Superior Court Judge Newcomb Condee, because "if Mr. Flaherty had written his column the day after the fight, Mr. Nova would have had to sue a thousand writers." Nova freely admitted that his "cosmic punch" and his well-publicized visits to Yoga Expert "Oom the Omnipotent" were the result of a pressagent's imagination, but he was certainly not a coward. To prove it, Nova's lawyers read into the record a story written after the fight by Hearst Columnist Bob Considine, who said...