Word: raye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harlem's Sugar Ray Robinson, welterweight (147 Ibs.) champion of the world, danced in his corner almost unnoticed. All eyes in Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium were on the challenger, Cuba's Gerardo ("Kid Gavilan") Gonzales. Most of the 27,805 customers seemed to think that the Cuban had a real chance for the crown...
Dapper, comfort-loving Ray Robinson nas not been a popular champion. He has fought only when he felt like it and has been known to change his mind about a match after the contracts were signed. Moreover, in Harlem, where he owns and operates four businesses (including Sugar Ray's Café), even his friends suspected that the champ had grown soft on easy living. But Sugar Ray, beaten only once in 98 professional fights, proved last week that he still had everything under control...
Screen Directors Playhouse (Fri. 9 p.m., NBC). The Big Clock, with Ray Milland and Maureen O'Sullivan...
...with her family's vaudeville act, to a fictitious revival of Sally in the 1930s. In between it sandwiches colorful chunks of a half dozen of Broadway's best-remembered shows, samplings of their biggest tune hits, reel after reel of dance routines by June Haver and Ray Bolger (as Jack Donahue), and assorted slapstick sequences by Charles Ruggles as Marilyn's father...
...best thing in the show is Ray Bolger, who dances in his own long-legged, rag-doll fashion-without even trying to imitate the crisper style of Jack Donahue. In one scene, as elegantly leggy as a giraffe, he ambles and ogles his way through a wonderful soft-shoe shuffle. Whenever Bolger is on hand, Silver Lining turns to pure gold. Otherwise, it is richly colored, but only medium-grade...