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Tanks a Million (Hal Roach; United Artists) puts a cheeky Quiz Kid (William Tracy) just where most cinemagoers would probably like to see him: in the U.S. Army. Unfortunately, the Army is in such shape that the Kid (named Dodo Doubleday) very nearly runs away with...
...that time Roxborough was on the verge of backing another up-&-coming Negro light-heavyweight, John Henry Lewis of Arizona. But after seeing Joe box a few rounds, Roxborough forgot about John Henry. "What's your name, boy?" he asked the shy, shambling kid. "Joe Louis Barrow," the kid replied. "That's too long, I'll just call you Joe Louis...
Because of his deadpan, most white folks assume that Joe Louis is a lugubrious fellow. Actually, he is as mischievous as a child. "When he was a kid," his mother grins, "I near wore his backside out with a strap. He slept in the same bed with two of his brothers and it was worth my life to keep them out of devilment." Away from the spotlight, which he loathes, Joe still likes his simple fun. Early mornings at training camp, he often routs everyone out of bed by pulling off their blankets. Jogging along the country roads, his tongue...
When Marva Trotter, a socially ambitious Chicago stenographer, married Joe six years ago, she hoped, like most wives, to make him over. But Joe Louis, still an unsophisticated, overgrown kid, steadfastly refused to go high-hat. He still won't go to the theater, read books, talk politics. But he can talk till the cows come home about swing bands, baseball, golf and his saddle horses, Flash and Annabelle White Star...
...Education--that's the whole damn thing," urged Canada Lee, heavy set negro lead in Richard Wright and Paul Green's "Native Son," as he walked down Tremont Street toward the Majestic Theatre stage door. "When I was a little kid I can remember white kids in the neighborhood would shout 'nigger' as I walked down the Pavement. Hello Miss Mahoney, I hear you're the belle of Boston--" he stopped to talk for a moment with a lean, grey haired old lady who passed him walking toward Boylston. "Today when I go 'Long the street I know that...