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...always scrupulously correct when white folks were around. But when with his own people, he liked to whoop it up. Wherever he went, he was followed by cronies-who admired him and split up what money there was in his wallet if it was lying around handy. Joe didn't mind. He never quibbled about a few hundred dollars; he never ducked an opponent. He has defended his title 25 times (more than any champion before him) and scored 22 knockouts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Joe's Last Fight | 7/5/1948 | See Source »

...today, thin-faced Ted Atkinson, 31, is known as The Slasher because of the way he flails the whip. Arcaro's only other serious rival is the West Coast's favorite Johnny Longden, who is 38. They all have slightly different styles. Longden, for example, is famed as a "whoop-te-do" rider: a jockey who likes to get out front and stay there. Atkinson rides with his stirrups even; Arcaro uses what is called the "ace deuce" technique, in which the right stirrup is about two inches higher than the left. Says Arcaro: "I don't agree with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: Man on a Horse | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

Oscar Awards (Sat. 10:30p.m., ABC). The annual whoop-de-do of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Mar. 22, 1948 | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

...quiet Sunday afternoon in Shreveport, La., and two schoolboys (9 and 11) were playing cowboys & Indians in the schoolyard. One of them slung a rock-and accidentally broke a window. That set them off. With a whoop, they threw rocks and more rocks. Great was the slaughter-156 windows-in Alexander School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Boys Will Be Savages | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

With the stimulating announcement that the talent for the forthcoming Smoker may run from Mayor Curley to Greta Garbo, the Freshman Affairs Committee is harking back to the whoop-de-do that marked the spirited festivals of the past. The razzle-dazzle that teased through the years with Sally Rand, Beatrice Kay and Jinx Falkenberg, was conceived in an all-or-nothing spirit that merited E pennants for entertainment. Eagerly anticipating upperclass status with a yell and a holler, all Freshmen banded together to throw their shackles into the Charles and emerge with the Biggest Show Ever. They balked only...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: So Fully Packed | 12/4/1947 | See Source »

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