Word: stiffness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John L. was a hotshot around the coal tipples, but on the sidewalks of New York he turned out to be strictly a stiff with a bum pitch. Last week, after eight days of trying, Lewis' flugelmen were badly beaten and muttering that they'd try again. They didn't say when...
...that was last November and Mike is still alive. He is one of the few victims of such extensive burns ever to pull through. Still in the hospital, he is now a thin, slight figure wrapped from neck to feet in bandages. His frail legs are bound to stiff splints to keep them from twisting. Pulling Mike through has been a long and complicated job. To prevent the formation of blisters and the deadly "white hemorrhage" (loss of body fluids and proteins through the raw, granulating flesh), Dr. Young covered Mike's burns with vaseline gauze, swathed...
...conserving energy, were hoary holdovers from the salad days of U.S. polo. The great Tommy Hitchcock, Jr. was gone (killed in a wartime plane crash in Britain) but one of his contemporaries, 45-year-old Cecil Smith, was in there riding at No. 3. Up front, his back ramrod-stiff as always, rode the old man of the team, Eric Pedley...
...Radio) is a tough little film about small-time prize fighters with big-time dreams, and the racketeers who make & break them. Into normal screening time, it crams 80 climactic minutes of the career of Heavyweight "Stoker" Thompson (Robert Ryan). At 35, Stoker needs only a couple of stiff jolts to the head to become a punch-drunk derelict. Unwittingly, he saves himself by refusing to throw a fight. When local racketeers have finished teaching him a lesson, Stoker's right fist is a broken mess and his fight career is ended once & for all. To his wife (Audrey...
...their corner, Screen Plays, Inc.'s impresarios, Producer Stanley Kramer and George Glass, were sitting pretty. On something like $600,000 (chicken feed for a modern A movie), they had made a picture which some experts guessed would gross $3,000,000. They had also delivered a stiff uppercut to Hollywood's heavyweights. Sam Goldwyn promptly bought up the talents of Champion's young (34) Director Mark Robson (who, like Douglas, will continue to do one picture a year for Screen Plays). Aggressive little Screen Plays' next: Home of the Brave, the first...