Word: singers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bass 18 mi. offshore from Santa Monica, Calif., yanked his line to free it from a kelp bed. fell to the deck in agony. The line had whipped back over his head, embedded the three-inch fishhook in the base of his skull. Asa Yoelson ("Al Jolson"), mammy singer, stood by in his fast motorboat, sped Ince ashore to a hospital...
Spain's most popular fighter is now Joaquin Rodriquez, nicknamed "Cagan- cho" (nightingale) because his father was a famed Flamenco singer. An obscure gypsy, Rodriquez entered the ring five years ago, left under a shower of miscellaneous objects (U. S. equivalent: pop bottles). Subsequent triumphs made him so popular that he is now trailed about the streets by mobs of adorers...
Mandell v. Singer. Because he has been growing too heavy for his class, Sammy Mandell, lightweight champion of the world since 1926, trained in sweaters under the July sun, dried out in steam baths. On the morning of his fight with Challenger Al Singer, last week in The Bronx, he weighed himself secretly, found he was 136 Ib. instead of 135 lb., put on thick clothes and ran around the Yankee Stadium until the pound came off. That evening, pallid and drawn, he came out of his corner cautiously to meet Singer, sturdy Bronx Semite. After a moment of tentative...
Battalino v. Fernandez. In his home town, Hartford, Conn., where he can draw bigger gates than anywhere else, Christopher ("Battling") Battalino, feather weight champion of the world, windmilled rapid, clumsy punches at the jaw, stomach and heart of slit-eyed Ignacio Fernandez, a Filipino who once knocked out Al Singer (see above). In the second round Battalino hit Fernandez in the ribs, doubled him up, then knocked him over with aggressing right. Like a fighter who has not trained and cannot, stand the slightest body punch, Fernandez went down five times more in that round, but stayed conscious till...
...with one of these three the quartet would become temporarily a quintet. Admirers prevailed on them to give a series of recitals. They did so and found themselves famed. Such great virtuosos and maestros as Zimbalist, Heifetz, Arturo Toscanini verbally crowned the young artists with laurel, forecast shining future:. Singer Gluck created a fund to aid them, received contributions from Manhattan's music-loving Warburgs, Kahns, Guggenheimers, Lewisohns. Thus blessed they went forth as the Musical Art Quartet, and for four seasons have passed from fame to fame. The Garrett tour will be their first trip abroad as a unit...