Word: louise
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said they last week: "Smoke is bad in St. Louis . . . [but] the people have lived in it since the town was started. . . ." St. Louis asked U. S. Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold whether a boycott would not be in violation of the anti-trust law.
In 1923, smart Joe Jacobs got Battling Siki, a coal-black African, to defend his world's light-heavyweight championship against his own boy, Mike McTigue. as Irish as the Blarney stone-not in New York, but in Dublin on St. Patrick's Day. In 1928. still smarter...
Sportswriters liked little Joe Jacobs. He was generous, gregarious, made good copy. They liked the taunts he put into beer-bibbing Tony Galento's mouth: "I'll murder dat bum" (Joe Louis). They echoed his casual remarks until they became part of Broadway's vernacular: "We wuz...
Last week, while sportswriters moaned "We wuz robbed." the prizefight fraternity wondered what effect Joe Jacobs' passing would have. With Arturo Godoy and Tony Galento in line for another shot at Joe Louis' crown (Galento is scheduled to meet Max Baer in a tuneup at Jersey City May...
THIS LAND Is OURS-Louis Zara-Houghton Mifflin ($2.75). By pure bulk of fodder this 776-page narrative of the Revolutionary frontier will satisfy munchers of romance as much as its mixture of admirable material and thoroughly uninspired talent will disappoint critics. In a Conestoga wagon, young Andrew Benton crosses...