Word: sportsman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Full of All Actions. Since weekly boxing is one of Bangkok's biggest tourist attractions, the fight programs have helpful and somewhat startling translations for English-speaking visitors. After Welterweight Sriswasdi Thiamprasidth won his $50 purse, the traveling sportsman could have got a bet down in the next event on another "youngster full of all actions with never retreat, who loves the give and take method to provide sensation for fans to their hearts' content...
Onetime World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jack Dempsey, 59, popped up in Buenos Aires on his first visit to the Argentine, where he was greeted by President Juan Perón (in whose honor, as "the world's first sportsman," a boxing festival was being staged) and an old ring foe, Argentina's Luis Angel ("The Wild Bull of the Pampas") Firpo. Argentines have always believed that Firpo, who lost the 1923 fight by a k.o. in the second round after Dempsey knocked him down nine times, really won it in the first, when he smashed Dempsey clean through...
...slapping a $7,000 suit on one of his clients. The client: Ann Eden Crowell Woodward, who had commissioned a Dali portrait of herself, and then declined to pay when it was completed. Snapped husband William Woodward Jr., who recently inherited the Belair racing stable of his banker-sportsman father: "It is a heck of an unpleasant picture, [depicting Ann] sort of against a rock with shells around . . . sort of slapped together in unpleasant, grey, grim colors . . . We wouldn't have had it if Dali paid us." At his summer home on Spain's Costa Brava, Dali simmered...
Died. John Arthur Dewar. 63, British sportsman and whisky distiller (Dewar's White Label); of a heart ailment; in Montecatini, Italy. Heir to a $5,000,000 fortune and a famous thoroughbred stable at 38, "Lucky" Dewar hit the headlines in 1931 when his horse Cameronian won the first two legs (the Two Thousand Guineas at Newmarket, the Epsom Derby) on Britain's Triple Crown, missed pulling off a rare coup when Cameronian ran a dismal last in the St. Leger...
...friends started talks at 3 p.m. But twelve hours later, there was only a bleak deadlock. The issue: Which of them should take top power and responsibility? Sleepless Jack Peurifoy learned in alarm of the impasse and caught a plane to San Salvador. Looking like a dashing sportsman in a green Tyrolean hat and checked jacket, he talked separately with Monzón and Castillo Armas (whom he met there for the first time), then brought them together. He hammered home the idea that the good of Guatemala demanded a compromise. The proud colonels began to give ground...