1956-03-24 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1956.

THE GREATEST DAY IN THE

DON COCKELL IN HIS TRAINING QUARTERS

I've nothing against Women-but I prefer Men, says Marilyn

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NTIL the other day i never believed that Marilyn Monroe ue- Lually existed.

wn all done by mirrors

It

or

nass hypnosis or something

WILN

I felt sure.

She

surely just another American pipe dres. But sitting next her

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on the chintz-covered

THOMAS WISEMAN

reports: from: Hollywood

D

She said, "Nobody knows my phone number " But did not seem a very convincing answer.

kind of ecstatic apreemtion of telephone call DE N romantic herself and said "If I had

nature long couch I cild surawl on il and make like I'm Clempates or something. Something is wrong.

"I feel like I ought to be drinking

1 champagne.

know we need music.

sette with her eyelashes what's wrong.

brushing my cheeks had We need mood music to get the to admit that Miss Monroe right atmosphere for this inter-

is more than AV 11

illusion.

optical

curve

to clear 10

ut

any

She is real every Jer will explain how her eyes lashes came to be brushung my cheeks just possible inisunderstanding

First,

she

long has rather eyelashes. Secondly, when Miss Monene is making a point, she dous it with all the persuasive powers at her command; to be more precise she clutches your hand. Sidles up close and uses her eyelids 24 provoc.uvely a fan dancer uses her fan.

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view."

As she went over to switch on the radio, i took a quick look round the ropin, Smetic w P was not the kind of run that Miss Monroe's complemented persunality

1

There were high-backed wooden chairs, brass loups. chine cabinet full of china, glass jar full of boiled sweets. pewter mugs in a wall shelf, a and outside grandfather clock, by the elecular swimming pool There

a child's rocking burse

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Mass HER BEDROOM

The part.cular point Monroe was trying to make at that moment was that she liked wa presared to let her ment, i convince me,

"Don't you like urls" she said and her eyelashes did a dance of the seven veils.

RED LACE

Inid there was a lot to be Said for them. She was wearing a red lace dress that plunged deeper than a cep sea diver Dad concealed just enough emphasise how inuch it falled to conccal. She must have used radar

to

Miss Monroe said: it's not me. rented.

know

met

were

Could it be that the Marilyn Monrve myth had become such big business that rather intimidated by it? Or had they merely been put off by the news that she read Dostoevski?

wan

Everyone was ringing Marilyn Monroe Inc. and nobody ringing Marilyn, " don't really have any friends in Hollywood," the added more frankly.

FOUR WAYS

Abruptly. The mood musle changed and so did the nood. Miss 'Monroe stopped doing high kicks on the living-room floor, ceased to parody herself

sat quietly came and

the on settee.

and

"There's another side to me." she said. "What you've just seen is the girl from the orphanage who has become a success It's a house I've

and the likes rich silky things and 1 Kving to lave my

Fich sitky life, But Sholl tell y.n

I'm a own house,

schizophrenle. about the bedroom I'm going to

Split about four ways. There's more to me than have. I'm going to have wide. wice bed. As wide as a meadow

what you just saw-I don't even and all sutins and furs

know myself exactly what, and luxurius hogs... the res

the house would be more classical But do like luxury in the bedroom."

She proceeded to sing "The Best Things ist Life are Ex- pensive."

On the radio a voice was onw Placed singing. to get into it,

"It we've got to make strategically in the deep V of a breat let's make it clean." her neckline was a white rose.

Miss Monroe sprawled out on "As a matter of fuel," maid the floor and made a pillow out Miss Monroe, "I like men more of a white mink stole. "Thet's than men like me," and as she better," she said. "I feel more

the white rose like Cleopatra already." spoke removed and tossed it aside, "If I keep it there much longer is liable to wilt," she explained with mock innocence,

The effect of this was to make the decolletage even more - decollete.

Wiiting

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She nuzzled her face against the white fur. "Gee," she said. "mink plilows-I never thought of that before."

"I've been away from Holly- wood a year and I've learned something. I hope. I want to develop. I just want to grow. And I don't mean where some people may think I mean.

OF

LIFE DON COCKELL

'All I knew was that the blob in front

of me was Johnny Williams.....

S

By GEORGE WHITING

0 it's just another fight, and you are in the business for dough, and the boxing rules do not mention pain. But the betting boys have made you a 4-1 under- dog, and there is A salty taste to that red liquid that is oozing from your mouth and your

nose and from those ugly gushes over your eyes.

You cannot see out of the purpling slit that was once a gleaming left eye. So you grope and you hope anul you sling everything you've got at the blur that repre- nents the "enemy'

the man who is inflicting these strictly commercial hurts on your person.

But who cares? Tonight's the night. The other guy is in worse shape than you are. You heard him gasp when you belted him in the ribs. You have 1f1- hooked the side of his right eye wide open with all the science and all the savagery of which you are capable.

The crilics

You are winning. With every shot you ram a hot relort down the threats of those critics who have damned you as a has-been. What's a little blood?

You are hammering out a heavyweight championship. Keep your hands up and you cannot go wrong. The rainbow is yours

and so is the pot of gold.

The

Boxing record books- agony columns with the blood cleaned

по up-accord than normal prominence to the fact that Don Cɔckell out polated Johnny Williams for the British and Empire heavyweight championships at Harringay on Muy 12, 1953.

more

But talk to Cuckell over cup of offee tea and

you will learn, even through the camou-

resourceful

victory

flage of Cockney monosyllables, that that meant all the difference between fade-out and sell respect,

It also meant, later, a crock at Rocky Marciano's world title

at least and

£20,000 Im- |provement in the bank balance, That old song about the gent who had 11 more months end 10 more days to get out of the

is not unsulted calaboose Den Cockell.

Rehabilitation

to

"Rernember that one?" asked Cockell.

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"Of course I do," he replied. "How can a Aghter forget night when one of his own kind goes out for keeps?"

was

Laughed

?

That is as good a report of Cockell v. Williams as you will get. They hammered it out for the full 15 rounds, but it was the Arst three punches in the

first 30 seconds that revealed to us ringsiders that Don Cockell was ready for the purple heights class all over of championship again.

The penny dropped Cockell had remembered what I had forgotten-that the night he beat Bell of the Royal Albert All felt-handers. A hook to Hall

the night that the ear, two more to a wide Honore Prates of France fought open mouth--and Williams had flywaight Joke Tull., And died lost the initiative

back- in hospital. Nobody laughed that pedalling, hesitant, at pains to one off.

avoid in-fighting. and with a championship fast slipping from A lesser man would his hold. have quit,

"You

Williams's left eye, Cockell's and Bel looked

nose end mouth, Willems's right terrible," I ventured

"I wasn'

eye, Cockell's left eye, Cockcil's So casy from where I was standing." replied Patchwork in the corners. Fran- right eye. Everything goes. Cockell. "Bell caught me with a

tic unloading that fell ke right-hander cricket ball. I hit him on the

odds. break, He lost his temper. I laughed. And that started it,

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by the layers of

Champagne

"Money did not come into it. It cost me more to train than

Don Cockeli is in the £450 I got for fighting Bell. mood, paying off

my man- against the But John Simpson,

roistering

scores tolling

old world, and ager, and I know what we were flat on his face in his cagerneZS doing.

Farr"

on

mess

affair with to Anish the "We were alter a champion- mighty swipe in round 13.

hell of a **I was in a ship fight with Johnny Wiliams and it turned out the only way when we came up for the last we could get it was for me to round,'

"I had says Cockell. beat Bell, and then Tommy been doing all right but Johnny had caught me with rome pretty good punches. I could ece prac Ceckell did both, Against tically nothing. My right

sye veteran but still-wily Farr, the was cut and my left eye com- Don gave us our first

real plotely closed-I never opened it thai inkling

the sap-drained for two weeks. cruiserweight who had

"All I knew was that the blob datened by Turpin might, after in font of me wes Johnny alt be of some account

In the Williams, and

that if only heavyweight hierarchy.

could hit it and hold it for three люте minules I'd title."

out

Escape

been

have

that

Cockeil, eyes or no eyes, held out. They rang the bell, they Farr's gamesmanship through wiped away the stains of battle,

the training period

nt they Brighton-they shared the same Re gymnasium-went for when Cockell turned on seven rounds of intelligent boxing and calculated venom up at Notting- bam.

furished the Lonsdale BAK, they but stitches in the the nothing wounds, and they labelled

new champion as a threat to the whole wide world.

"Anything vise?" I asked Cockell,

Cockell, so seccftly written

"Ya You might mention that

had

In champagne

the off, collected £1,250 and strode we

resolution spicod with dresing-room and that the re- resentment towards the greatest porters drank 11."

with

day of his The.

But the championship

against Williams nearly happened.

H'm.

battle never

After his usual fight-morning breakfast, half a cup of tea and nothing to eat, Cockenl and trainer, Bill Cowd, set out by car from Diamonds Farm, at Horam in Sussex, for the

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gas-happy motorcyclist the pulled across the front of Cockeil car at East Grinstead, and only a swift application of brakes by Cowd averted

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weigh-in at Jack Solomons' gymnasium of Plecadilly-and all but ran into death-on-the- It took him almost

exactly road. that period of sweat, swipe and manoeuvre to toss back in our teeth those ever-co-funny nick "I want to pron in stature, games we used to think up for be a real actress. In New York him. Dumpling Don. But

learned to make friends.

terhall, the Waist of Time had never

any friends,

that kind of stuff. only conquests. 1 didn't have the Incidentally, Cockell is en- Cockcell weighed la at '14sí. time to and real friends. I was gaged

another term of Dlb., made curt acknowledg- always being looked at, had no rehabilitation right now, but menta

the back-stabbers- chance to look. serious abuut

I am perfectly that is another story-and not turned-back-sioppers, and left wanting to ect at all funny.

for a lunch of steak and raw seriously.

Instead, picture the Cockell cabbage (he bates the stuff!)· in of Just over four years ago. Ho his hideaway at Kensington. has been bashed into the ropes

NO STUNT

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accident.

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and into a four-round defeat by the afternoon of

Useful thing. a hideaway on

....

the greatest

Good report

an ill-considered Virginia Negro called Jimmy Slade with night of your life, and I am not "This is no stunt, believe me. Prince Philip looking on.

revealing its location. Suffice to She kicked up her legs for no It doesn't mean I want to do He is hauled off to Hammer. say that Don Coctell has a very reason except sheer exuberance, away with the Marilyn Monroe smith Hospital for an examina Hood friend in a sailer-turned and said, "Look, Can-Can, That personality. That's also me. tion of the metabolle quirks that publican called Len Rollins. would make a good pholo- But not the whole of me.

make him run to fat. He re- a little myself,

Sell a lot

turns to outpoint a not-so-hat edged a couple of inches away graph, wouldn't it?

"There's a part of me

that Italian called the at papers."

Tontint trying hard to remember

wants to be a wife and mother. perspires three stone away in a questions I had intended to ask

I noticed that she was as full I could be such a marvellous Brighton gymnasium. her. But before I could ask any of admiration for

and Some fighters deck themselves her legs avite. And there's the part of loses his British thing she had moved up even (sheathed in black stockings) as me

and Empire with rainbow panta and that likes to that likes cruiserweight

eyo- cloter and was brushing cigarette the rest of the world.

·les to a rip catching dressing-gowns for A roaring Randolph Turpin, Cur- championship fight, ash from my shirt and was say-

but any tains. Ing. "I don't like to make any

Barterial embellishments. Cocked man give up hope. Because.

told her. Don't grow a thing. among ourselves whether

We wrote him off. We argued might have fancied for the all- who knows? I'm free, unattach-

Bul Miss Monroe sald: "Every £7,500 he collected for the Tur long since been destroyed

the important Williams bout had cd... and I'm looking."

by Bob, the family retriever.

'I LIKE MEN'

mer,"

That's the Marilyn we like, I

one has to change.

grow

I suppose part of the reason UP. "Speaking of changing." I pla fight was a reasonable wage

at her said, "when you go to Eng-for the walloping he took,

what will you wear In

I asked what sort of man she why men like looking was looking for.

so much is because

land she likes being looked at, "What Ilke bed? Is it still Chanel number about men," said Mise Monroe, sive?" "is their vulnerability. It's so touching. No woman should ever trample on a man. They are such helpless creatures.!!

OPEN SECRET

She sold; "He must be a poet though that doesn't mean he has to write poetry. He should be

- consitive... Sonaitivity is as ime

portant as masculinity."

to lavender water."

"No, for England. T'U change

"Won't you be cold? Think of I asked if she had done any the English climate,” trampling in her time,

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Knock-out

Bob, now. deceased, had chewed up four robes and a new raincoat in one wild wardrobe orgy, and left his master with nothing more resplendent than And we rated it a pretty fair the ancient blue gown with Assessment of pugilistic values which he began his career as a when, four months later, he re- preliminary fighter at £5 Appeared as a suburban heavy- show. weight down at Streatham-for £4002

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Matile plans? Cockell had

"I can keep warm anywhere"? no," she said. "I told you 1

4 was glad to see Mim Monroe

knocked outPaddy" beaten and been beaten by like men "And physical qualities..." against women, but I prefer

I've got nothing had not changed too drastically, Slavin, and dust-fading Trish; Willams back in fils apprentice

A person has to make do with champion, in the second round; day and he knew the score He should have those too!!

171071."

what she's cot. For girl who and that, too, was rated a pretty Johnny toward good but Talking to Miss Monroe, her

has got

vulnerable, especiality/14 (you as much as Marilyn good joke. celebrated body in lfite an open ‚an that ease, 'I wanted to

Monroe and, in addition....... to Don. Cockelias @heavy could catch him qulakiy kaysays secret between you. You may know, why was it that there everything also she hoa cool star weight seemed good for gugu Coctelle. So I trained to be not actually talk about it, but was no romance in her life? We personality, and a tremendous and not much else an · Im=, Grst "with the left hand, and you both know it is there. : had been siling talking for

nearly three hours and on her professionallen this should be pression, confirmed by a success, that's the way it weak; He She ran her hand down her third day back in Hollywood, no barabartengja hul but une muy low knockabout me up prett ? bad but

turn with the unke Yorkshire- Jesic and bare, shoulders in 'a there, had been not a single

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