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Left Hook, Right Cross. Louis looked wilted, and walked stiff-legged, like a man on stilts. But no one in the crowd, least of all Louis, saw what was coming. And no 'one in the crowd, even the most rabid of Rocky's fans, really wanted to see it. In the eighth, a solid left hook, thrown wildly from Marciano's awkward, hunched crouch, caught Joe flush on the jaw and sent him tumbling to the canvas. Louis had been knocked down in other bouts, and each time he had come up fighting. He did this time...
Ithaca is filled tonight with rabid alumni who came up to see Cornell begin its quest for the Ivy League title, which many forecasters predict for the Big Red this year. The contest, Cornell's home-coming game, begins at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Schoellkopf Field. Cornell has been installed as 34 point pregrame favorite...
Even Ch'en Tu-hsiu, the leader of the early Communist party, was not a rabid Communist. He believed in secular Manchester liberalism, yet took Party control because he thought that revolution would sweep the world. But Moscow doubted that students could carry through a revolt of national scope. Russia wanted China as an ally and designed to combine the new Communist party with the older Nationalist Koumintang as the only way to make a solid front...
Players & Apes. But the villains of the big time are not only the coaches. There are also the rabid alumni-"the men who are influential in promoting among young boys a distorted idea of what it really means to play big football . . . and who think that other people's judgments of men are as superficial as their own when they say that football players will have no trouble finding jobs, because everyone is glad to hire a football player...
Cambridge's partisan baseball bugs will be able to place a lot of bets this morning, with the Giants and Sal Maglie (23-6) favored to take the third National League playoff game. But none of the bets will be taken by Harvard's leading baseball authority and most rabid rooter, Coach Stuffy McInnis...