Word: punchings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bill Hartack, 24, the nation's winningest jockey for the past three years in a row, booted home the 2,000th winner of his career aboard Herald Wind at Atlantic City, N.J. Three days later he was set down 15 days for rough riding and throwing a punch at Fellow Jockey Jimmy Johnson, his second suspension in less than a month...
...successful that even Southern neighbors chuckle at his wry, raucous gibes against segregation (TIME, April 1, 1957). What is more, Golden felt perfectly at ease in the old Southern town of Charlotte, his adopted home since 1941, despite the fact that he was no planter's-punch Southerner but rather a Jew from Manhattan's East Side...
...school. McCarty wheeled in a U-turn, grabbed his Rolleiflex, sprinted up in time to hear the Negro boy say he would not get off the sidewalk. "I could see it building up in him," says McCarty. "I knew he was going to hit one of them." When the punch came, McCarty caught a memorable picture of a teen-ager exploding in a burst of rage expressive of a deep yearning for equality and civil rights...
...Thus Punch reviewed Eliot's latest play. The Elder Statesman (TIME, Sept. 8). Cruel April's bard and the elder statesman of Anglo-American letters is 70 this week, and to the surprise of practically everybody, including himself, Thomas Stearns Eliot seems in love with love and life. The poet who was old at 23, when he wrote Prufrock, is getting young in his old age. Last year the erstwhile "aged eagle" talked about taking dancing lessons, and now he can be seen dining out and piloting his 31-year-old wife Valerie across dance floors. "His brow...
...surface, it would seem that Munro is in for a year of rebuilding. But if the fullbacks stay healthy, if the half-backs develop into some kind of a unit, and if the forwards produce a scoring punch, the Crimson could become the proverbial "dark horse" in the Ivy League...