Word: raye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feud began when Carter, in Look magazine, tried to tell "What's Wrong with the North." In heavy-handed satire of "In the Land of Jim Crow" (TIME, Aug. 16, 1948), a series done by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Reporter Ray Sprigle after a tour of the South in the disguise of a Negro, Carter drawled that as a circulation-booster he had assigned one Sherlock ("Ol´ Fearless") Meriweather to do a series "In the Land of Grim Snow...
...state. Owners of thoroughbred stables threw up their hands in horror, and none of the Chicago tracks made any immediate move to take advantage of the bill. Even the small track owners, strongest supporters of the legislation, weren't turning on the lights just yet. Explained Ray Bennigsen of Illinois' Hawthorne and Sportsman's Park: "The bill, I believe, was put through as a surety measure in view of the decline in betting on the thoroughbreds at all Chicago tracks this year. We all know what lights have done for baseball, football and other sports, and there...
Despite its gloom over the Senate's fatal ratification" of the North Atlantic pact, the arch-isolationist Chicago Tribune (circ. 957,000) still found one ray of sunshine last week. Cried the Trib: there is now, in Washington, "an outpost of American principles . . . better provisioned, better sited and no less valiantly defended, we hope, than young George Washington's Fort Necessity."* What Trib Publisher Bertie McCormick meant was that he had just bought the Washington Times-Herald (circ. 278,000) from the seven "faithful employees" to whom his cousin, the late Eleanor Medill (Cissy) Patterson, had bequeathed...
...tricks. He set traps and sprung them with a master's touch (e.g., following three left jabs with a left hook instead of an orthodox right). By the 10th round, ringsiders had the feeling that they were watching a precision machine. In the 14th round, Sugar Ray was in such confident command that he stuck out his tongue at Joe Louis, who had picked Gavilan...
Though Sugar Ray lacked some of the fire that once earned him the reputation of being, pound for pound, the best fighter in the business, he easily won the judges' decision. Said one veteran ringsider after it was over: "When Robinson defends his title, every professional prizefighter in the U.S. should pay his way in to learn...