Word: roundness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...modest "life reader" ("I don't claim to do miracles") named Madame Avon; he could see clumsy girls competing in an amateur strip-tease contest or watch Seminoles wrestling alligators. Within the white walls of Miami Beach's Saxony Hotel the lazier man could maneuver round the clock from the Hulahut through the Bam-Boo-La Lounge, the Veranda Room, the Tropical Room, the Chuck Wagon ("All You Can Eat for Only $1.95"), Ye Noshery,- the Nite-Cap Lounge and the Pagoda Room...
...ring with Bobo, he was just as brisk. For one round he danced and jabbed, held in the clinches and saved his strength. The old snap was back in his punches, though, and the perfect timing. Again and again, Sugar suckered his man into a lead and caught him with a wicked counterpunch. The question was: How long could Sugar stand the pace...
...challenger did not hang around for an answer. Early in the second round Bobo crowded in and Sugar shoved him off. Carelessly, Bobo tapped his gloves together in a meaningless gesture. In that instant the challenger became Sugar Ray Robinson, the champion. His right whipped out and clouted Bobo on the head, bouncing him off balance. His left followed, flush on the face. Bobo went down for good...
...member of the first group of Nieman Fellows at Harvard in 1938, Reporter Lahey used the year to round out his scant formal education and "cure the worst damn inferiority complex about college you ever saw." Salty Ed Lahey became a hit with the faculty, was cultivated by Felix Frankfurter, then a Harvard Law School professor, and other faculty members who delighted in the newsman's flair for deflating campus stuffed shirts. When a notoriously long-winded instructor finally wound up his lecture one day, Ed Lahey inquired slyly: "Would you mind summarizing that last point...
Only ten entrants in a field of 64 have settled first round matches in the University Squash Tournament. The first round was scheduled for completion before the vacation and now will have to be rushed in the first week in January...