Word: wiseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nondrinking, nonsmoking, in-bed-by-11 Australians prompted one U.S. player to call them "too damned earnest." But even Patty and Larsen were buckling down with the other seven U.S. entries to the routine of roadwork and practice they will need if they hope to get past the wise old crocodiles...
Pert, brunette Evelyn Caldwell, 42, who writes the "Penny Wise" shopping column for the Vancouver Sun (circ. 161,603), got a chance two months ago at a free air trip to Australia. When she asked Sun Publisher Don Cromie's permission to go, Cromie meditatively twirled the globe on his desk. "You know," he said, "Korea is only about four inches from Australia. You'd better drop in there and see how our boys are making...
...past six weeks, Sun readers have been following Penny Wise's gushy, column-long dispatches from the Korea front. Their emphasis was on how Penny herself, not the boys, was faring. One of her first discoveries was the shortage of ladies' powder rooms along the 38th parallel. Near the front line, she "prayed fervently for a set of bulletproof undies." At Pusan, she tried on a Korean woman's costume, including an infant slung on her back (see cut). Garbled Penny: "I've always believed that when in Rome you should visit La Scala." She also...
...moment Robinson almost sounded like a man getting ready to retire. At 30, he is wise enough to know that one lucky punch could mean the beginning of the end, that "any man with two hands can beat you." But he is nowhere near ready to quit yet. It's too much...
...this week Sugar Ray is settling down to the serious business of getting ready for a title defense against British Empire (and European) Middleweight Champion Randy Turpin next month. Turpin, at 23, is a real challenge to the champion, a fighter with the power, if not the ring-wise skill of Robinson himself. In 50 fights, young Turpin has been beaten only once (by France's Jean Stock). Since he won his title last October, Turpin has knocked out seven opponents in a row, including France's Stock and Holland's De Bruin...