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Manhattan nurses unwound thick bandages from the right eye of beefy, chocolate Sam Langford. An oldtime, hammer-handed prizefighter known to fans as "The Boston Tar Baby," Negro Langford would have been world's Lightweight Champion in 1903 if he had not been eight ounces over the weight limit when he mauled Joe Gans. In 1917 he was stalling through a fixed fight with Fred Fulton when Fulton punched his left eye so hard it had to be taken out. Soon cataracts formed over the right eye. Unable to see more than two feet ahead, Sam Langford fought...
...quantity of the material is even more surprising than the content. An evening or so spent reading this book is far more entertaining and absorbing than a movie. It does, in fact, give the impression of a colossal comedy (or better tragedy) of errors as this animated tableau is unwound before the reader's eyes...
...newspapers in Rio de Janeiro to share, in lesser degree, the fate of A Noite were Critic, A Ordem, Vanguarda, Gazeta de Noticias, 0 Paiz and A Noticia. Some of them thought to remove their newsprint to comparative safety in the street. But there the rolls were set upon, unwound by urchins...
...justified, but propinquity without possession grew more and more poignant. When two correct visitors from the outside world arrived, the situation came to a head, there was the devil to pay. Eventually, with the help of two fistfights, an attempted suicide, two engagements and a marriage, the tangle unwound itself...
...earth at Stamboul, Turkey. Said the military commandant at the field: "In the name of Turkish aviators of the future I greet and welcome you . . . ." Pleased with this courtesy the aviators prepared to hasten on toward Aleppo. Official Turkey ordered them to wait while the red tape was unwound from an official permit to fly over Turkish territory...