Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cinemactress Lauren Bacall, was stepping out with an old family friend, Cinemactor Frank Sinatra. Lauren was recently draped on Frankie's arm for the Las Vegas premiere of his new movie The Joker Is Wild, last week went along with him to a closed-circuit telecast of the Sugar Ray Robinson-Carmen Basilio fight in a Hollywood theater from which they emerged looking as happy as if they had bet on Winner Basilio. But though Hollywood gossips buzzed, both Lauren and Frankie denied a wedding is in the wind...
...Tiny Reed College in Portland, Ore. has long had to rely on its high academic prestige (liberal arts and sciences) to sugar-coat its cut-rate faculty salaries; e.g., Reed's full professors average only $7,500 v. the $10,293 average pay of their counterparts at the state-owned University of Oregon. But Reed's hard-put faculty members had some cheering news last week: an anonymous benefactor gave Reed an endowment fund worth some $400,000 that will be used solely to raise salaries. The new gift boosted Reed's take in the last...
...Sugar Ray Robinson, 37, four-time middleweight champion of the world, earned close to $500,000 for 15 rounds of fist fighting in which he showed an admirable capacity for absorbing punishment and a furious skill at dishing it out. Round after round, Challenger Carmen Basilio, 30, plodded in to belt his man from heart to haircut, and Robinson fired back with deadly effect. Basilio's head bobbed like a light punching bag at the end of Robinson's jackhammer jab. He started the fight sullen with 5 o'clock shadow; he finished looking like...
...YORK, Sept 24--A Sugar Ray Robinson-Carmen Basilio rematch in June probably will emerge from the smoke screen of conflicting reports following last night's bitter 15-round brawl at Yankee Stadium...
After all that chatter, Sugar's workout with gloves was an anticlimax. A leather helmet complete with chin guard and nose piece protecting the old scars acquired in 148 professional fights, he lazed through four rounds. Sparring partners put on a fair imitation of Basilio's brawling style while Sugar put on a fair imitation of a man who knows how to defend himself but sees no point in overexertion. "The roar of the crowd will give him a spark," promised Manager Gainford. "Just wait till Sugar hears the crowd...