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...middle-aged Peruvian with greying hair. Amid all those glowing colors, he looked small and inconsequential. The diggers, fascinated by the era in which he lived, were not much interested in the man himself. Only one thing about him was worth noting: his legs were tightly folded under his chin because the ancient Peruvians believed that a man should lie m his grave in the position in which he lay in his mother's womb...
...seconds later, Rocky charged out to attack blond Charlie Fusari with the urgency of a man fighting a swarm of bees. He got over a looping right to Fusari's chin, followed with a fusillade of rights & lefts. Fusari went down and the crowd of 31,092 came to its feet, filling the Polo Grounds with a frenzied roar. Rocky's dazed foe took a count of nine, came up wobbly and was chased into a corner by the most furious killer (in appearance, at least) in the prizefight business...
...struggling swimmer: "Down & down I go, round & round I go, like a leaf that's caught in the tide . . . under That Old Black Magic . . ." The Red Commodore also relayed a message from young (18) Briton Philip Mickman, who had unobtrusively swum the Channel two weeks before: "Head up, chin up, spit it out, beat Old Man Channel." Between wireless messages, the A.P. released carrier pigeons to fly bulletins to England. Unfortunately, the pigeons flew to France...
...boardinghouse friends such as Donna Guillermina, a wandering Spanish aristocrat who died of eating too much burgoo at a political rally. Minor Paul characters are shot by suspicion-crazed alcoholic spinsters, held under the water in bordello bathtubs, driven half-mad by ghostly apparitions, slashed from cheekbone to chin by jealous wives...
...gridiron for good. Not daring to tell his wife, he takes to drink. For several reels the script shuffles about in this shoddy dilemma until it stumbles into a shoddier solution. Halfback Mature's recipe for mending a broken marriage: smear your wife's lipstick across her chin, beat her about the face and tell her you love her. All in all, Easy Living is no great shakes either as education or entertainment...