Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kindly Desist." Setting out from Istanbul by ship, accompanied by newsmen, Gulek ran into government obstructionism right from the start. At his first big port of call, the tobacco town of Samsun, the local governor not only refused Gulek permission to hold a public meeting, but also decreed that he could not even hold a closed meeting with local Republican People's Party committeemen. Coolly, Gulek answered: "We have a perfect right to hold a meeting in our own party home." To the 300 people who braved police surveillance to crowd into Samsun's small, stifling party headquarters...
...trimmed with white. He marched to the ring, wary-eyed and handsome, protected, for the time being, by his seconds and five skirling bagpipers from Canada's 48th Highlanders. Next came Archie, his entourage six uniformed U.S. airmen and his only music the raucous booing of a home-town crowd. As Archie stepped through the ropes to shed his cerise-and-green cape along with his shimmering black-and-gold robe, his natty mustache and carefully trimmed imperial chin tuft quivered with scorn for the ill-mannered fans. He was more than ready...
...effort of some of the most gaudy pitchmen in the fight racket. There was ancient Jack Kearns, owner and groom to seven whilom world champions, the man who took so much money out of Shelby. Mont, when Jack Dempsey beat Tommy Gibbons in 1923 that he almost broke the town. There was fat Jack Solomons of London, the ex-fishmonger, determined to give the brawl some real English class. There was a Canadian mining promoter named David Rush, a talented sport with an improbable aptitude for turning penny stocks into folding money...
Sweet-Scented Clubs. As for the fight itself, "Doc" Kearns and Co. need not have worried about the talents of such an old (42) trouper as Archie Moore. With a skill perfected in tank-town arenas and sweet-scented boxing clubs all over the world, Archie wasted no time half-blinding the Saskatoon Statue with slicing jabs to the eye. Then, the fight well in hand, he carried his man for nine rounds, gave the crowd its $148,500 worth before the referee mercifully stopped the slaughter. "I could have finished him in the eighth," Archie confided later...
...daughter Lovey, the April day of deliverance from grandma's tyranny turns heavy with foreboding. Lovey, The Beautiful Blind Girl, can see again-but she has cunningly preserved her three-week secret. For sight regained means Paradise Lost: an end to the antic freedom accorded Lovey by the town, and eviction from the cemetery's marble orchard which, blind, she has been allowed to make her private playground. Back to sight means back to schools and parties, and the shrill anonymity of being just another girl growing up in New Hoosic...