Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dressed in black tie and tux, Prime Minister Ian Smith jerked a piece of bunting one night last week to ring a 250-lb. bronze replica of the Liberty Bell. "I toll for justice, Christianity and civilization," cried Smith at a ball celebrating the first anniversary of his Unilateral Declaration of Independence. "Every time it chimes it will be another nail in the coffin of those who want to interfere in the internal affairs of Rhodesia." Then Smith and his wife went out on the dance floor to kick the gong around...
...sophisticated U.S. Protestant seminaries, such ideas are neither new nor, when properly elucidated, all that unnerving. Yet to many-perhaps most-Christians, they still have the ring of a betrayal of the Gospel. And besides the fact that it comes from a bishop, this doctrinal iconoclasm offends these people because Pike sets it forth in a sloganeering, Batmannerly, instant-theology style that seems almost calculated to scandalize them. Trinity...
Thunder from the Right. Boxing has been Hugh Benbow's love ever since he left home at 15 with $50 pinned to his underwear. Forty fights later, Lightweight Benbow quit the ring to become a businessman, but his affection for the sport remained. He made one fortune in costume jewelry, lost it in the 1946 market crash, made another in Texas oil. Now 63, Benbow is back in boxing as manager and father confessor to Cleveland ("Big Cat") Williams, 33, who on Nov. 14 in Houston will fight Cassius Clay for the heavyweight championship of the world...
...want them from every race and creed, from all over the world." Benbow plans to build a woodworking plant on his ranch; his boxers will spend their days turning out "the finest cabinets a man can buy," do their training evenings. He already has advertised for applicants in The Ring and claims to have received 50,000 responses-including one from a would-be boxer in the South Pacific islands of Tonga who stands 6 ft. 2 in. and weighs...
...said of his craft, "We are the ballyhoo guys to bring people into the author's tent," and did so in both books and such magazines as Redbook and The Saturday Evening Post, where his fine-lined, highly realistic drawings embellished the stories of O. Henry, Booth Tarkington, Ring Lardner, F. Scott Fitzgerald; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...