Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Team members, including Roger Fleischman, Dave Beadie, and George Leness in addition to the above, will play a qualifying round today for the Williams match tomorrow...
...slugger, willing to take a punch to land one. But when he landed, his opponent usually dropped. Rocky never really bothered to learn how to box; he never really had to. Without losing a fight, he battered his way up through the heavyweight ranks. It took him only eight rounds to dispose of Joe Louis and ruin the comeback of that puffy remnant of a great champ. Later, he won the title by flattening Heavyweight Champion Joe Walcott in the 13th round, after being knocked down in the third for the first time in his professional life. In a return...
...came to pieces under Rocky's ham-handed macing. Last year Light Heavyweight Champion Archie Moore managed to put Rocky on the canvas for the second time in his pro career, but the champ righted himself as solidly as a hogshead of ale, and in the ninth round knocked Moore out. He was 31, and he still couldn't box, but there was still no one around to bother him. He had won all his 49 fights, 43 by knockouts. He took a vacation...
...Ways. The job depression is not offset by the boom in symphony work. There is only one orchestra in the country-the Boston Symphony-that could be said to work the year round. Members of other major orchestras can count on 3-8 months' work, and the great majority of secondary groups perform only.a dozen or so times a year. The major symphonies in 1954 paid instrumentalists an average of only...
...round-faced young man with a crew cut and a muscular build, Lees was born (1924) of Russian parents in Harbin, China. The family moved to San Francisco the next year, bought the boy a piano when he was seven. Lees studied music for two years at U.S.C., then discovered Composer George Antheil, who led him toward advanced composition along a path strewn with pungent maxims. (Sample: "Do you know the sound of the flute? It's not the silvery thing people talk about. Just remember this: a flute is a virgin...