Word: bantams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Enemy and Little Caesarare gems of toughness. James Cagney and Edward Robinson attack the problem of being mean and shiftless cancers on the social body with little reserve and less delicacy. Instead, they set patterns of tough-man acting that have haunted their subsequent careers. Cagney is the cocky bantam hoodlum, swaggering and posturing, with words dropping from the side of his mouth in chunks and gushes. His favorite stance is with one hand grasping a terrified speak-easy proprietor by the shirt front while two fingers of the other hand are poised to jab out stricken eyes. Robinson, less...
Heard Around Town. If the Press itself has grown great, a good deal of the credit goes to the paper's bouncy, bantam-sized (5 ft. 5 in., 128 Ibs.) editor, Louis Seltzer, who started on the Press at 18 as a police reporter, and at 56 is Cleveland's leading citizen. Even the rare Clevelander who does not read Seltzer's paper or support his crusades can hardly avoid the sound of Seltzer's persuasive voice. He is such a popular public speaker that he delivers as many as seven speeches in one day, this...
...last week's final World Series game was exploitation, the players seemed oblivious to the dark cloud. Some were nervous, but none cracked up. Bantam-sized (5 ft. 2 in., 103 Ibs.) Joe Sims of Birmingham struck out six batters, issued no walks, allowed only two hits in shutting out Schenectady, 1 to 0. The losers, moist-eyed but not bawling, pattered from their dugout to congratulate the Alabama players, who triumphantly hoisted Sims to their shoulders. The winners were then engulfed by autograph-hunting bobby-soxers. Piped one downy-cheeked champion: "This is worse than the game...
...Club, the guessing ran hot and heavy on two questions: 1) Could anyone crack Oakmont's tough par of 288 for 72 holes-something never done in two previous opens at Oakmont? 2) Could anyone stop Ben Hogan, who had won three of the last five Open championships? Bantam Ben himself, complaining that he was a creaking 40 and that his back ached, undertook to answer both questions...
...Fort Worth, bantam Ben Hogan, coming from behind with rounds of 73, 71, 71 and 67, won the $25,000 Colonial golf tournament...