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WITH

Armour

IN

Britain Today

H

Russians In Bloomsbury

London they had uncovered no

there eating, capitalist hyenas, -EARING that

wore Russinn tourists -real, live, first since, the war-loose in London this week, we dashed off to

Buc.

Sure

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ἐπι enough, gleaming, newly-rebuilt student hostel deep in Bloomsbury we found 30 of them, On approach we Were directed to a Mr Alexel Smirnov, a plump smiling gentleman in bis middle thirties.

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Mr Smirnov explained (via his interpreter, for our knowledge of Russian and his of English turned out to be only strong enough create na international eldent between them) thart, after 18 days in England, his Party had come to "un- animous conclusions" about life in England and he was prepared to pass these on.

Th

Fri did comCİALAISEN becus set out on a long sheet of paper and Mr Smirnov proceeded to read

in "the LEANDRY politielun discoursing

boetie situantit

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They merely fell that new housing projects in London's East End had mit "sufficiently of the hanged the character area," and they seemed to feel that some of the atmosphere of Piccadilly might well be moyed Little east,

They were prepared to admit that Englishmen might not enre tur Piccadilly on their dour- steps.

them

Tous encouraged, wr tackled

H

the subject of "misrepresentation" in the Press,

The fest complausi -- read by

Tool, berpectacled youth seemed to be that vodka cropped kat m too many alories about tusta. He felt that English - KIHOW Vodka and men should! Russons were out inseparable.

The other Isle Forneci to be that certain eminently re- spectable journals were spread-

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journal

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Hromady underestimated the nausber

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production problem. Thu, we gathered, was fell to stem is

misunderstanding DE LECCER campaigns to increase food pro-

duction

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ot by La Unan Anti- Fase! Youthy hos poor opinion of "the differees happy.

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OURTWINE, They were

They found that test Englishmen they met mully up- between Pievadily and the East

"Soviet deste End" and that they had been preciated" the

"d.slu, bed* by

Parasitpresenku - tions** of their exuntry in the British Press

FUT FRICT standing."

in the

and mutuel under

Tu mane of them reall- want- ed to settle down in England "The Jovy of our country. mann, treaves, they found Brium a pleasant esmuggh Very strong," concluded

place and is people inkable, and youth politely.

Charm Of An

SINHE men who go down to the

in Daling ballrooms

un optimistic

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seem 10 be

mood.

In any case, Britam's owners

of Juxury Bigs art Ln

optimistic mood:

aized liners

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KV

bilo

this month alone, und

is due for launching.

ar

middle- service

a third

One of them, Cunard's sleek Saxonia, all for Canadu,

The second, the P & Oliver berla goes to the Australian service The third, Shaw Savill's re- volutionary Southem Cross, just launched by the quen Belfast, will ply betwem Britain and New Zealand.

The

Cominonwealth, at any rute, seems certains to ie linked by ships for a long time to game. And, what with the Dutch, the French, the Americans and now the Germans competing vigor- ously to out-do

one another with chi

champagne and swimming pools on the Atlantic. things

seem sound enough there, too. On the face of it, it is a distinctly queer.

Ocean Voyage

уж

money. They are building for An the future.

ocean liner, after all, is probably good a anything up to 30 years.

Perhaps there is no reason why they should worry. They mus have a deep sight mio humun nature.

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1954.

Where are the Kings of the Ring today?

THE CINDERELLA MAN

SETTLES

THE

ON

WATERFRONT

... and business, he says, is pretty good

• Why did they call Jamos J. Braddock the Cinderella Man? Because this down- and-out Irishman hit back from the gutter to snatch the richest prize in sport. Today Braddock has five men working for him and "a little_place-up in the Catskills.' Not bad, he says. Not bad at all.

R

stories are

A

AGS TO RICHES printer's devil, at 18 an odd

four-a-job-man-cum-stevedore penny in the bax- the docks, at 21 a profes.

ut boxer.

28 ing business Monal especially for publicity. But washed-up piece of flotsam there are also true ones if from the fight game-his you care to look hard enough fists bruken, his savings as dit recently in a gone in the depression; un. tangle of tar, ropes, winches employed; and and other maritime impedi- able on the hard-hit water- menta alongside the grey front of 1983. waters of the Hudson River at North Bergen, in Jersey,

New

the The sign over

ollice door reads, "James J. Brad dock, Marine Store Dealer" --which should be enough to anyone who ever heard of Max Baer, or Joe Louis.

He could duck

nie

unemploy

"I was walking the streets and talking to myself, I guess," recalled the Brad- dock of 1954. "I joined the Hine for work at the docks

of them, but the shrewd brains in his corner decided that swap. ping wallops with Boer could be Instead, a short cut to suicide. the challenger was sent out on n campaign of attrition. His left hand, once broken but now set hard, was to job for points; his legs were le keep him mobile, and fast; the ponderous swings of the contemptuous Baer were to be blocked, ducked under, nvolded at all costs.

Buer boxed like a listicas old His ill-timed rallies were hort-lived, his lack of ring con- dillon obvious, and in marked citrast to the sheen and pur- of his under-dog challen- puse кет. Baer lunged. Braddock boxed. After Ave rounds, oxids on Baer had disappeared, and loud was the noise of the as they gambling "hedgehogs""

cover scught a few crumbs of

толеу.

The trick fails

the

The playboy Baer, stung and deluded Into novice-like plunges, sought recovery in rough-house tactics, staps, bock-handers, and other non-schedule devices. The referee, John McAvoy, was kept constantly employed in admonl-

tion.

Next, Baer pulled the age-old strategem of felgning groggincm,

by GEORGE seeking to lure Braddock on to

WHITING

1 wasn't

50

The Cinderella Man. Th...

every day, but none of those izs what they called

* foremen so much as looked Braddock, and RO fit

at me. We went on relief descriptive tag Was ever

Hall so the kids devised though there was at City precious little of the glass could have milk. Then i go. slipper-fairy-godmother stuff part-time job lifting rail- about the ruddy, grey-haired why sleepers at one of the character who rolled towards cargo plers.

with the unmistakable good, I guess." gait of the Jongshorenian.

But Old Man Luck No thick ears either, to tel

keeping the score. Boon There is something shout

of his other trade-fighting. an

there would be gorceries, ocean Beer which can never be And Bo slurring of the duplicated in an aircraft.

Jimmy Johnston, Liverpool- speech

the syllables

born matchmaker at the Partly, it is simply that you dropped slowly, softly, and

Garden in those days, was deliberately from the corner

too robust A of the Braddock mouth. The seeking not Cinderella Man knew how to heavyweight to pit against a rising young Southerner duck.

step aboard and forget about the world for a few days or even a few weeks.

You pre completely and gulcessun&ati- helpless. to mid- Atlantic, there is no way vif. There is mthing you can du about whatever happens to be going on at the other end.

You can relax and commend yourself to fate.

And, per

there is perhaps. thing in the thesis that a great ship is somehow animate in a sense that an airliner never can name (so do air- be. It has a finers, but who ever remembers them?) and it has its owa habits.

Home-

called

Was

Griffin. Corn

A bandful of precious dollar bills was waved, and Brad- dock reached out from the

rend-line.

hungry

Henry SO WIS

"Been here since I stopped londing ships for the Army in 1946, I guess," said he "Suits me. On the water- front most of my life. Busı-

a No Aghter like ness? Pretty good, I guess. Got five men working for fighter. Griffin was knocked out me and a nice little place for the third round, John the summer up In the Cat- Lewis was outpointed,

Art Lasky-and James J. skills. Ten rooms. Not bad

bros, o recently acrelict, for an old-timer."

was matched for the champion- ship of the world against holder Max Boer, the Magnificent from Nebraska. Screwball Thirty-live thousand people para £18,000 to watch the light in Long Island Bowl, New York, on June 13, 1935,

After all, you can get from one liner has its own peculiar any one point on the globe to

intle Another pitches any other by air in matier of

Each has petulantly.

its hours these days, Every new

"How old?" I asked. set of noises, advance in the aircraft industry rhythm, its own

maybe even its own set of narrows the not-very-wide

"Forty-nine in December. between the price of an airline

No doubt an ocean wyuge is Got two sons and a daughter steamer ticket and the price of ticket. One day, alom-powered a time waster.

in their twenties. They're Saft will probably close the gap part of its charm. It belongs to doing fine, I guess." for god and all.

a leisurely way of life-one of

Rap

molts.

But that, 100, 15

Yet the steamship mon are the last vestiges of acceptable Fists broken

not worried. They are making sloth in an age of bustle.

Conversation Piece

THE Fearsome Gargoyle folded how long it took him to count

This morning

with all that..... undisgulo sataraction

paper

of

"All In the

interests

At least they know it now," aclence," broke in the Gargoyle. ho aald to George the cast-iron "Somebody has to expose this Lion. "The British people have appalling situation."

been ded

are

you

"Baer talked plenty before the night, I guess," Braddock told

"How were they doing in me. 1984 ?"

"Starving, I guess. Their old man waa worse than broke and on poor relief at five dollars a week."

and Maxic

"The horse-players said it was ten to one against me standing up, let alone win, Agured they should have ambulance ready.

One hour later.....

EUX

"But old Doc Robb got mo

30 pounds on Lake Sheldrake, up in the Catskills. I gisem Max

"And in 1935 7" Anally

George scratched his car George

sleepily, meditatively. "So

think "We was cating, I guess. "You've been reading the pro- we'd all be a lot better off if we First thing you do is ent

Mr Founcements of Hubert spent all our time reading about when you're heavyweight good and ready, and I took off Phillips 1, suppose. The British polities, if we all spoke the same people aren't educated, Their brand of properly accented champion of the world." MENDATE

They precise English, if we all behaved tolerate squalor and encourage

with

some unemotional

I hitched up my chair didn't talk so much during the noise. They have no proper mechanical courtesy and if all and prodded and prompted fight, or after. I kept him kinda' revulsion

for ugliness. The our

were properly until I had heard from the busy." contenta of their

germ-proofed and Cinderella Man himself the

one, of the No nolar no story of how a down-and-out The brash Baer,

damaging brats with dirty Irishman had hit back from creest and most buildings not op- the gutter to feed his family attach the lightest importance hitters of all time, refused to proper design end win the richest prize in to Braddock's

challenge. His how the Wrotches murder the "And plenty of good, clean, the whole realm of sport. training was alapdash, careless, perfunctory. Braddock, ho an- Braddock, son of nounced, would be ready for the cleaners within six rounde-and

19

Cargoyle

thumped the paper mainst his left wing. Jouling, no "Quile right. Every word of it, faces, No And he's on oven better ground provod by the when he goes on to talk about authority.

Innguage.

And the wholesome Sunday newspapers. Bunday papers. He has counted "No, doubt you, could do it,"

Sunday

*

1,000 seres of newsprint devoted, George was nearly asleep. But Lancashire-Irish parents, not one of the experts · sougn. lother 1,000 crime and an- "he was determined, to make one had no option but to flight to argue with that prophecy.

BOX,

Je, Lordshià attract, F20, the Britta be hard to replace stone's throw from the pre... next door, to s bum-of-the-

Last effort, "I hear the Holly from the minute he was born borde

wished ho

wouldn't wood movió · klókos – hayo just

Braddock's wife, May, switch. tolog loudly especially since brought over a five-armed robot in that boisterous bit of New ed of bet radio when the ring- had left his who regonda to every push of York that used to be known alde commentator declared that

roof and the "Güttösk

as Hell's Kitchen-not a the ill-considered Irishman. WILE month for Baer. One hour Inter. sent Madison Square Garden time game crille was tailing, the on Wost 49th Etreet, › world, they bad, a new heavy-

At 14 ho was a trampraddock off and truant from":"2h681; Et 16 A bosser cold punch wis the bo

Lo Der ministry

along to Clcorgo's Cam Sque

people with a crow of them. Arit drupled softly, "This {my wonder, though. Do you

talion hert

buất -Phillipatriaal: IA BURTONO you'd ever End

(or in Bearna, Senioriť,

me

thunderous, punch on the jaw.

pay-for-all

"But I could smell that kind of n take a mile off,” recalled Braddock. "Maxie was getting

round,

but

in worse shape than me. I broke up his attacks with my left and hit him over and over again on the nose.

"My manager, Joc Gould, told me to take it easy for a coupla tourds, and he knew the score. really went to town. I felt good again in the 13th and By this time the crowd were yelling at me to knock Maxie out, but knockouts don't come that easy --not when

nin't sitting you down in a chair outside the ring.

"All through, Max had been fooling around and clowning in the clincher, but he came out for the last round like he was going

to knock my head off. One right-hander hurt bad, but I put him way back with a left hook to the body and a right to the chin.

"I guess those two panches Binished Max, but he was good sport. Just before the bell he we was in a clinch and

the now whispers: 'You're champ, boy. Good luck to you."

Cinderella arrives

more

And it was so, Next morning, Jimmy Braddock, little than one year away from charity and the dole, called at Madison

receive Square Garden to cheque

and for 31,244 dollars 13 cents.

The Cinderella Man had

at the ball, und arrived stayed there till midnight—or until June 22, 1037, when Joe Louis knocked him out in the eighth round in Chicago.

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