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...paunchy, dewlapped, 235-lb. Tony for a go with Champion Joe Louis on June 29, probably in the Yankee Stadium. Delighted, Tony bit the cap off a beer bottle (see cut), galumphed off for a swim, pausing to write in the sand with a pudgy forefinger: "Tony Galento, heavyweight champ." When he porpoised back he predicted: "I'll flatten dat bum wit' one punch...
...horrified to learn that this gesture, called cornuto, is a well-known symbol for cuckoldry in Latin countries-horrified because I had in my ignorance and innocence used the identical gesture as a gag in a forthcoming Donald Duck picture, The Hockey Champ...
...Beaverbrook, Britain's frontier is not the Rhine of Herr Hitler, but South Africa. Beaverbrook's Empire is thus the kind that would sign the pact of Munich, and the Express now praises Chamberlain as a "champ" who has bowled over all his foes-at least in England...
Stablemates (Metro-GoIdwyn-Mayer) gives Wallace Beery a chance to duplicate, with a few trivial alterations, his famed role in The Champ (1931). In The Champ, Beery was a broken-down plug-ugly who achieved moral and physical regeneration through his desire to justify the adoration of little Jackie Cooper. In Stablemates, he is a dilapidated veterinary surgeon, restored to some degree of selfrespect by the grateful affection of Mickey Rooney and a race horse named Lady...
Missouri - a field goal against the New Deal in the renomination of Senator Bennett Champ Clark. This adverse score was light because Senator Clark was not actively fought by Roosevelt & Co., and his two 100% New Deal opponents were worthy political nobodies. The heaviness (400,000 majority) of the vote for Senator Clark, who opposed the Court Plan, Reorganization and other Roosevelt legislation, could be ascribed to his strong Favorite Son position. Comfort for the New Deal could be found in the victory of Judge James M. Douglas of St. Louis, candidate of New Dealish Governor Stark for the State...