Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sensational flop. The Times-Leader did not want it; neither did any New York syndicate. On & off for nine years, while he worked for three Wilkes-Barre newspapers, Fisher tried without success to sell Dumbelletski, later renamed Palooka (a common prize ring term for a third rater). At last McNaught Syndicate offered Fisher a job, not as a cartoonist, but as a salesman. Hustling Ham sold McEvoy & Striebel's Dixie Dugan strip to 41 newspapers and promised that on his next trip he would bring the "most terrific cartoon of all time." With that buildup, he sold Palooka...
...referee raised the new champion's glove, someone yelled, "Where's Joe?" They found Joe Louis, figurehead director of boxing for boxing's new monopoly, the International Boxing Club.* Joe climbed into the ring to hand La Motta a gold championship belt (with a diamond, two sapphires and two rubies). "Nice going, Jake," said Joe. La Motta shed a few proud tears. When the receipts were counted, I.B.C. discovered it had lost $4,000 on its first major fight promotion...
Church bells will ring for Radcliffe's seniors today as they march across Cambridge Common, but they've rung already for the 'Cliffe's top graduate...
Champion. Kirk Douglas as a Ring Lardner pug; a portrait with a punch (TIME, April...
...there are any stalwart Law School worthies unintelligent enough still to be sweltering within reading distance of this item who desire to play a canto or two of "ring around the habeas corpus," or "tibia, tibia, who's got the fibula" with a trio of Cornell Medicos all for the love of a lady, let them apply forthwith to the CRIMSON Building...