Word: raying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Feuer, 40, and Ernest H. Martin, 31, in the first rank of theatrical producers. Feuer, who once headed a movie studio's music department, and Martin, a onetime radio executive, have now produced two shows, and both turned out to be hits. They launched their partnership by starring Ray Bolger in 1948's Where's Charley? (792 performances), which is currently enjoying a profitable return engagement...
...with a good punch and a Gibraltar jaw. In 95 fights, deep-chested Jake has never been knocked off his feet. For this combination of qualities, Jake is nicknamed "The Bronx Bull." It was Jake's misfortune last week to defend his title for 13 rounds against Sugar Ray Robinson, the welterweight* champion, a man for whom no completely adequate nickname has yet been invented. Pound for pound, Sugar Ray is the best fighter now wearing gloves. Meeting him in Chicago Stadium, Jake the Bull had his finest hour, but it wasn't fine enough...
...Intervention. For Jake LaMotta, making the best fight of his plodding career, the eleventh and twelfth rounds were nightmares: Sugar Ray hit him with everything-jabs, hooks, straight rights, curving, underhand bolo punches-from the most varied locker of punches in boxing. Any ordinary fight would have been stopped by the referee in the eleventh, but Jake, truculently determined not to be counted out, had warned the referee beforehand not to intervene. At 2:04 of the 13th, as Robinson was beginning to show an obvious distaste for the one-sided slaughter, the referee stopped the fight. The finish found...
...Pain. Sugar Ray's hair was mussed, but he was feeling no pain. He stepped to the microphone and made a perky little speech consisting entirely of a plug for the Damon Runyon Memorial Cancer Fund (he had just been appointed an honorary member...
...Mudlark. Hollywood's tribute to a mourning Queen Victoria (Irene Dunne) is brightened by the cockney ragamuffin (Andrew Ray) who coaxes her back to her public duties (TIME...