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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Knowing Sonny Listen's reputation for viciousness in the ring (33 victories, one loss, 23 knockouts) and his "bad boy" record outside it (19 arrests since 1950, on charges ranging from armed robbery to assaulting a police officer), his training camp visitors could be excused a certain amount of nervousness. But it was all only Liston's idea of a gag. Polino's lost "teeth" were actually white beans; the gun was a blank pistol, the blood ketchup−and the victims just Liston's playacting trainers. It is his sparring partners who are the victims...
...Tell Me."" One after another last week, they climbed bravely into the outdoor ring at The Pines, the swank borscht-and-bagels resort where Liston was training for his Sept. 25 bout with World Champion Floyd Patterson. One after another, they were helped out. "In the morning, Willie Reddish asks who's got The Bear today," sighed "Slim" Jim Robinson, who has had difficulty lasting one round, "and I say, 'Don't tell me until after I've eaten. I want to enjoy my breakfast.' " Onetime Welterweight Champion Barney Ross watched Liston deck another sparring...
...meander of elements to a four-square jig of fire-water called "tab 's' to be inserted in slot 't'"--in short, a fence "apeiron" with seeds tied hatching to its string, knitting the cold wet hamburg of the world to clay and fleshing it with glaze, an onion ring sliced for a sky that curdled, by fire hurled...
Whatever the case, Jigs does not quite have the ring of authenticity achieved by that small classic The Young Visiters, supposedly written at the turn of the century by nine-year-old Daisy Ashford. Nevertheless, Jigs makes some of the best out-loud reading since the original Pooh. "Sacraments are what you do in Church. What you do at home is something else," Virginia began the rambling essays she wrote for her boarding-school teacher. "When you are little and ugly somebody carries you in church on a pillow, and you come out a child of God and inheritor...
...long-standing tradition, traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange break into cheers whenever stocks move sharply upward. Last week stocks were again moving upward, but the cheering had a nervous ring. "I'm afraid of this rally," said one Wall Street expert. "It lacks conviction...