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...himself in the lobby of the hotel, left Granada next day. Soon he forced himself to forget. Many years later he had become a popular writer, rich, famed; again he came to Granada on a holiday, put up at the still expensive Hotel Boabdil. One evening came a knock on the door. The same scene was repeated, only this time he himself was the elderly stranger; this time the shock killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lost, Found | 3/3/1930 | See Source »

...fight Maxie Rosenbloom, rated as the best light heavyweight of all. For eight rounds stubby Scozza, a swinger, plunged after dancing Slattery, received a hearty cuffing. In the next four rounds Slattery got tired. In the 13th, a wild spray of punches suddenly erupted from Scozza. He dazed Slattery, knocked him against the ropes, was about to knock him out when the bell rang. Glassy-eyed but courageous, with his last energy forcing his wobbling legs to dance once more, Slattery jabbed and countered in the 15th as he had in the early rounds, won the decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Slattery v. Scozza | 2/24/1930 | See Source »

...contemplated rash doings; instead, went to see Mr. Ziegfeld. All went well. Said he: "So you're the little lady from Washington who wants to go on the stage are you? Well you are certainly a knock-out for looks I will hand you that. Let us look at your legs." Soon she was sharing a dressing room with Fannie Brice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lorelei | 2/17/1930 | See Source »

...height and the opponents' light weight tipped the ball into the hoop time and again while the Crimson dwarfs stretched in vain. Driscoll, high point man, with 16 points to his credit, standing head and shoulders above the Harvard guards, had only to stand under the basket and knock the ball in as it bounced off the board. He sank fouls when Rex and Burns tried to keep him down...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON QUINTET DEFEATED BY BIG HOLY CROSS FIVE | 2/13/1930 | See Source »

...drunk, went to Coke's dressing room and told him who his wife's lover was. Coke went out to meet defeat with nothing but despair in his heart. For eight rounds he went hammer & tongs, batted O'Keefe all around the ring, couldn't knock him out. In the ninth round he knew it was all over. ". . . Something reached out of the darkness and belted him on the jaw. He felt the canvas again, but under his back this time; he heard the dim roar but it was receding now, and the rain was falling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Boxer | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

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