Word: raying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...couple of years he worked as a second-rate song-and-dance man, a little too far from the big crowds and the big money to be really happy. Last summer, in a Paris church, Sugar Ray remembers: "It suddenly hit me-a strange desire to fight again. It just conquered me. I figure it was God's will." Early this month, Sugar Ray took down his gloves and tried them out against a bumbling pug named Joe Rindone. He won by a knockout, but the fight proved little. Last week in Chicago, Sugar Ray squared off again-against...
...Sugar Ray never looked worse. He slithered along the ropes, hung on, watching desperately with rolling eyes as the clock ticked off the rounds. Across the country, television fans squirmed to see the former champ chopped down...
After the predictable decision, a thoroughly beaten Sugar Ray still refused to quit. One of the finest fighters of all time was suffering from an occupational hazard: deafness to that final bell. "I know one thing," said Sugar Ray stubbornly...
...like that sort of thing much," snorts father Kelly. "I'd like to see Grace married. These people in Hollywood think marriage is like a game of musical chairs." When the gossips reported that Ray Milland was leaving his wife for Grace, mother Kelly hustled out to California to set things straight. Milland insists that he only took her to dinner once; Grace says nothing. Most recently Grace's escort has been Dress Designer Oleg Cassini, one time husband of Gene Tierney and professional man-about-ladies. The Kellys deplore all such gossip-column romances...
During the 1950 off-year election campaign, Chicago Sun-Times Reporter Ray Brennan got hold of a fine exclusive story. He reported the secret testimony before the Kefauver crime committee of Chicago's Democratic candidate for Cook County sheriff, "Tubbo" ("richest cop in the world") Gilbert. Largely as a result of Brennan's story, Gilbert and the entire Cook County Democratic machine were sunk on election day. But a federal grand jury indicted Brennan for impersonating a federal employee to get the secret testimony. Reporter Brennan won the first round of his case when the Government dropped...