Word: ups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Set-Up. A small-time pug's last stand on the sordid fringes of the fight racket, with Robert Ryan (TIME, April 18).
Fate grinds him small. The mighty Knight of the Lions (as he now calls himself) is laid up for a week by the claws of a pussy cat. He is paraded through Barcelona with a placard on his back:
THIS IS DON QUIXOTE DE LA MANCHA. He is pummeled by his squire, and at last dumped off his horse in a put-up tourney and forced under oath to give up his quest. Beaten, Alonso Quijana admits that Don Quixote was mad. "In last year's nests there...
Bouquet. In Walhalla, S.C., Etta Jackson won a suspended sentence after explaining to the court that the twelve half-gallon jugs of bootleg whisky dug up in her garden were placed there only to make the flowers grow better.
Tufts started bravely enough, but soon ran out of gas. Most of its attack was led by one-time All-New England Rick Morris, just returned to college, and observers agreed that Morris has decidedly slowed up since he last played.