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Hemingway was the champ all right. He was past 50, but still the champ, and he was ready to take on all comers. He had said so himself, to a New Yorker writer, only a few months before: "It is sort of fun to be 50 and feel you are going to defend the title again. I won it in the twenties [A Farewell to Arms] and defended it in the thirties (To Have and Have Not] and the forties [For Whom the Bell Tolls], and I don't mind at all defending it in the fifties...
...writer can be licked only by himself. In Across the River, Hemingway never wins a round. Friendly fans, willing to wait for the big book that he is still working on, which "is about the sea, the air and the land" (see below), can only hope that the champ...
Many Hemingway fans simply won't believe the champ when he says that this is the best novel he can write, will hope that soon, perhaps in the work now in progress, he will find his Sunday punch...
...advantage all along: the benefit of Christ's spoken advice from the crucifix in Don Camillo's own church. Christ argues with him, humors him, acts as his conscience. Once, after the priest has knocked out a swaggering boxer, Christ bids him good night with "Sleep well, champ." Later, when Don Camillo grouses about the weight of the church cross he must carry in a parade, the Lord smiles and exclaims: "You're telling...
...Rome, Boxer-turned-Cinemactor Buddy (Jacob Jr.) Baer, hulking (6 ft. 6½ in.) brother of ex-Heavyweight Champ Max Baer, came out second best in a tussle with the King of Beasts. Passing by a lion's cage on the set of MGM's Quo Vadis, Buddy scarcely had time to duck when a big paw shot through the bars, ripped his shirt from shoulder to waist, clawed an inch-deep gash in his left...