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...reached the final in the light-heavyweight division of the National Amateur boxing championships at Boston. By that time Joe had come to the attention of dignified, college-bred John Roxborough (recently indicted and charged with connections with the numbers racket). Roxborough, son of a reputable Negro lawyer and angel of Detroit's black belt, had helped put a dozen colored boys & girls through the University of Michigan...
...Alix," wrote the Queen, "is a most noble, excellent, dear creature ... a realization of what my dear Angel so ardently wished, and I doubt not he sees and knows this, and that it is one of his rewards." But "like a mayfly the Prince of Wales danced idly in the sun." He also danced under the gas lights of questionable houses in Second Empire Paris, until Bismarck, having discovered the riddle of Napoleon III (he was "the sphinx without a secret"), destroyed France at Sedan and created the Second Reich at Versailles. Then "from these flames there stepped a slightly...
With Mr. Jordan (Claude Rains), a sort of Angel Gabriel, the fighter sets out to choose his new body from a list of worldlings who are about to die. During the search he falls in love with a girl (Evelyn Keyes) whose father has been wronged by a young, polo-playing millionaire. This persuades him to take the body of the millionaire, who has just been drowned in a bathtub by his wife (Rita Johnson) and his secretary (John Emery...
...traipsed from room to room, occasionally spotting a familiar picture ("Look, a Benton!"), noticing that U.S. art owed as much as theirs to French influence. The Argentines too liked Eugene Speicher's polished portraits. Art and amity were equally served by Bellows' painting of Luis Angel Firpo knocking Dempsey out of the ring. The critics, suave and gracious in the Argentine tradition, contented themselves with polite praise in sonorous Castilian...
Bummy Davis, who used to be one of the toughest kids in Brooklyn's notoriously tough Brownsville section, had punched his way into the big time with a lambasting left hook. Bash-nosed Fritzie Zivic, youngest of Pittsburgh's five "Fighting Zivics," is no angel either. Teethed on a fighter's mouthpiece, he learned all the tricks of the family trade before his voice changed, picked up a few more during some 200 professional prizefights...