Word: ringed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dormitories and clubs are joining this year in the project which includes food booths, fortune tellers procured by Bertram Hall, a ring toss sponsored by the Catholic Club, and a fishbowl-grab managed by Cabot Hall residents. The Pan American Club has the soft drink concession...
...TIME, April 11), Set-Up packs its own sharp, unexpected punches. The story, based on a poem by Joseph Moncure March, is fresh and honest. Its script, tense as a taut rope, neatly sidesteps the tintyped heroics of standard fight films and concentrates on the rotten underside of the ring and the characters that infest it. Especially pungent is the treatment of Paradise City, a typical overnight stop on the hayseed circuit. Rooting about in this neon-lighted netherworld-in down-at-heel bars, penny arcades, a ramshackle arena and its sweaty lockerroom-the camera turns up an arresting assortment...
Champion. Kirk Douglas in an expert retelling of a Ring Lardner short story; with some of the fastest and most realistic boxing scenes ever screened (TIME April...
...probably going to bring its two authors, Thomas Coley and William Roerick, a steady income for many years to come, if not from Broadway at least from the hundreds of Little Theater productions it seems surely slated for. "The Happiest Years" is one of those little domestic comedies that ring enough familiar bells in everyone to give a warm feeling of recognition and remembrance...
...welterweight champion. Until then, the nearest Douglas had ever come to boxing was skipping rope at St. Lawrence University in preparation for a tournament in which he became intercollegiate wrestling champion of the Eastern Division (1938-39)* By the time Mushy finished with him, Douglas was in such good ring training that the double who was hired to do his fight scenes never got before the camera...