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Even after he won the featherweight championship of the world from Nigeria's Hogan Bassey in 1959, diminutive (5 ft. 3 in., 126 lbs.) Davey Moore liked most to boast of his boyhood reputation as the best fist-foot-knee-and-thumb fighter ever produced by Kiefer Junior High School in Springfield. Ohio. Son of a Negro clergyman, Moore was a professional of sorts by the time he was seven, fighting in impromptu preliminaries in Springfield's Memorial Hall and scrambling for coins tossed into the ring. Officially turning pro in 1953, he seemed only...
...Australian bounder dressed up like a British bobby, and so are the other members of the I.P.O. (Impersonating Police Officers) Gang. In one week alone they pluck six plums off Sellers' thumb, and by week's end the poor punk is driven to a desperate remedy: set a cop to catch a cop. Unfortunately, Inspector Fred ("Nosy") Parker (Lionel Jeffries), who qualifies handily as the stupidest flatfoot seen on screen since Edgar Kennedy turned in his badge, couldn't catch a hangnail in a square mile of linsey-woolsey...
Kimi was once a dress designer, but when she ventures to make suggestions about her husband's designs, Okada becomes jokingly stern. "When Kimi tries to help, she helps too much," says he, making his thumb and forefingers snap open and shut to suggest a yacketing mouth...
...some scoffers, the nation's capital is the city of the hard nose, the tough work and the political thumb in the eye. But last week it became, for a few exalted hours, something much different. This was the occasion of the unveiling of Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, lent by France to the U.S. for a few precious weeks.* It required something special-and that was what...
...Kennedy stepped into the elevator that was to take them one flight up to the West Hall, the elevator operator panicked. The sight of Jackie Kennedy, elegantly coifed and exquisitely draped in a pink strapless creation, was perhaps too much for the man. In any event, his thumb froze on the STOP button, the elevator never got off the ground, and the Kennedys finally decided to walk upstairs...