Word: ringe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beetle-browed Vince Foster was not a thoughtful young man in spite of the perplexed look that always lay on his battered countenance. But he had a wicked punch, and the little touch of meanness that puts a razor edge on a fighter. In prize rings around Omaha, he stood wide-legged, off-balance and clumsy, but he still knocked out twelve of the first 20 opponents that faced him. Out of the ring, Vince was just as rugged; in the course of a brawling youth, he once gave the marshal of Rulo, Neb. two black eyes with one punch...
Kirk Douglas first appeared last fall in "Letter to Three Wives." In that film he played a pensive English teacher. His second appearance gives him a chance to show off his musculature as Midge Kelly, a lightweight boxer who is nearly normal until he steps into a ring. Douglas is a competent boxer and a fine actor in "Champion...
...producers have shifted the emphasis of Ring Lardner's famous short story so that it is not Midge Kelly, but the "boxing game," that comes out the villain. In the original, Kelly knocks down his crippled brother and his mother, and throws a fight in the first two pages. None of this lovable character delineation appears in the movie; instead Midge becomes a man who just can't lose--an animal who refuses to fall down, either by agreement or because of terrific punishment. He wins his last fight after being beaten silly because he gets sore in the fifteenth...
...Harvard Radio Network enters the producing ring tonight with a performance of the second act of Mozart's "Don Giovanni" in Italian...
Conchita Qintron, 26, girl bullfighter, drew ooohs and aaahs from 20,000 Frenchmen for her form-fitting black getup, but only perfunctory applause for her Paris debut in the ring. Since French law forbids the killing of bulls, cool-eyed Conchita went through her routines with wooden swords, made one "kill" by laying a handful of orchids daintily between her victim's horns...