Word: raying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when she recognized Boxer Sugar Ray Robinson in a Harlem bowling alley, Althea went up to him and said brashly: "You're Sugar Ray, aren't you? Well, I can beat you." The blunt greeting started a fast friendship. "Althea used to come over to our apartment and sit on the floor," says Sugar Ray's wife, Edna Mae. "She was unhappy; she had a gaunt build and she felt that she was the least good-looking girl she knew. She had insecurity and went into herself. She used to talk wild. I tried to make...
...trouble was that by then Althea dominated Negro girls' tennis, and she was getting nowhere fast. She shot pool and billiards, soaked up jazz and thought of a career as a nightclub singer or musician (Sugar Ray bought her a saxophone). Then, in the summer of 1946, Althea moved up to the women's division of the Negro A.T.A. national championships. She was beaten in the finals by Roumania Peters, a Tuskegee Institute instructor, but her tremendous potential as a tennis player caught the attention of two A.T.A. officials: Dr. Robert Johnson, a general practitioner from Lynchburg...
...would take Althea to Wilmington for the winter and put her through high school; in the summer she would travel the Negro tournament circuit with the Johnsons. Her family agreed, and Eaton still recalls Althea's arrival at the railroad station in Wilmington: "There she was with Sugar Ray's sax in one hand and in the other an old pasteboard suitcase with two belts tied around it. She was wearing an old skirt; she'd never owned a dress in her life. My wife bought her a few dresses and tried to make her more feminine...
...Stanford's Quarterback John Brodie, already signed by the San Francisco Forty-Niners, made the most of a Giant fumble with the slippery ball, swiftly passed his collegians 55 yds. toward the pros' goal, sent Illinois' Abe Woodson scampering downfield and shot Wake Forest Fullback Billy Ray Barnes across to score. But when Notre Dame's Paul Hornung (Green Bay Packers) missed the extra point, the All-Stars had to settle for a 6-0 lead. The Giants settled for something more: crack performances by two of their oldest, saltiest veterans. Ben Agajanian, 38, Giant kicking...
...relentless glimpse of the Korean war, directed with restraint by Anthony Mann, but hitting every theater seat with the shock of a grenade in a foxhole; with Robert Ryan and Aldo Ray (TIME, April...