Lou Nova

Boxers have motivated themselves by doing any number of odd things before a fight. Lou Nova, for instance, trained partly at the feet of a fakir called Oom the Omnipotent. But the strangest system yet has to be...

Gypsy Rose Lee left burlesque "because I found something better to do, and almost anything is." She is now touring the nation promoting dog food. The product is called Voila Gourmet Dog Food, and it features such...

All week the press has been awash in rumors from Italy of a Marciano comeback—the unbeaten heavyweight was in training, he was going to take on Cassius Clay. Now the shocking truth is out. The rumors were a plant. "I...

1 Barney Oldfield in Warner Bros.' The First Auto, 1927.2 Babe Ruth and Anna Q. Nilsson in film Babe Comes Home, 1927.3 French Boxer Georges Carpentier in The Gypsy Cavalier, circa 1930.4 Lou Nova with Walter Pidgeon...