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Because of this scaffoldy buildup, what happened in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week made every fight fan sit up and take notice. From the opening bell, the challenger befuddled the champion. Fighting from an apelike crouch, he weaved and bobbed, annoyed slow-thinking Louis, threw him off balance, crowded him against the ropes. These tactics had been tried on Louis before...
...around a leg of the counter, in order to retain his locus, he tried to decide what kind of a Valentine an athletic girl with blend hair and a tremendous appetite for expensive Scotch would like. Despairing of any rational choice, Vag grabbed the nearest "billet doux," threw a dime to the girl with the pasty smile, and releasing his hold on the counter leg, flew through the swinging door on a single bounce...
...wise guys who have been whispering, "Wait and see-Taft will fade out, then throw his support to Bricker," Ohio's Senator Robert Alphonso Taft and Governor John William Bricker had an answer last week. In Washington, they threw their arms around each other. Governor Bricker, once called a dark horse, said he was a horse of another color, would support Taft to the "last ditch." He frowned officially on a Chicago "Bricker-for-President" headquarters. Still some of the wise guys merely winked...
...book are glowing accounts of some of the thousands of men who were "Steinached" during the roaring '20s. They changed, says Steinach, from feeble, parched, dribbling drones to men of vigorous bloom who threw away their glasses, shaved twice a day, "dragged loads up to 220 lbs.," even indulged in such youthful follies as "buying land in Florida...
...highly rated diamond prospect, with the New York Yankees reported to be interested. They picked Red Rolfe right off the Hanover campus, and in time the amazingly well coordinated Broberg may be ready for his chance. It was he who parked one of the first pitches Tom Healey ever threw to him for a home run into some broken-down bleachers at Dartmouth last spring...