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...contrast, aggression by the male model was generally viewed as appropriate and approved by both the boys ("A1's a good socker, he beat up Bobo. I want to sock like A1.") and the girls ("That man is a strong fighter. He punched and punched, and he could hit Bobo right down to the floor and if Bobo got up he said, 'Punch your nose.' He's a good fighter like Daddy...
Although he faced some of the largest football players in the league--without pads--Straus is known as a real "socker." "When he gets going he just knocks guys down," one teammate recalled with a smile. Straus also scored two goals and one assist this past season...
...Said "Socker" Coe: "I don't belong to any church [but] it seems to me the time has come when we ought to get together and do something. I got the idea for an interfaith committee out of my head. I got on the telephone, and in about five minutes each with the three most prominent Catholics I knew, the three most prominent Jews and the three most prominent Protestants, I had the committee." Members included ex-Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy, Builder Louis Horowitz, Theater Owner Messmore Kendall...
...help them, too. I'm for churches. They do a lot of good . . ." Last week he and his committee held a second auction, raised $65,000. Said Washington's visiting Rabbi Norman Gerstenfeld: "The real test of good will in a community is action." Said Socker Coe: "I believe a good deal of bigotry was broken down by the committee . . . There's a general attitude of friendliness that wasn't there before...
Like garlie in a pizza pie, however, a little goes a long way. When it is laid on as thickly as Prima has been laying it lately, even the most voracious bobby socker gets indigestion. Prima has taken away all of the high rolling rhythms and sweeping operatic phrases which make the latinized jazz of latter-day N.O.W. jazz sparkle and has left only those bawdier mannerisms associated with the fruit man on the corner...