TV Guide (November 20, 1953)

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Gentle June Byers, world's champ, using 'body breaker.' DRaMATiC STARS: THE LADIES WHO GRAPPLE FOR DIAMONDS AND SUCH T he impression clings in the minds of some TV viewers that the women who sit at ringside at wres¬ tling exhibitions are suited to model butchers’ aprons. Is there a psychia¬ trist in the house? • “I can explain,” volunteers Ruffy Silverstein, one of the many erudite men on the present-day mat. “When women ringsiders implore one wres¬ tler to tear another’s arm off, they mean something else. “Very often the explanation is quite simple. A woman has a particularly heated argument with her husband. She gets the last word in but she’s still sizzling when she bangs the front door and takes off to join her girl friends at the wrestling matches. “Something about one of the wres¬ tlers reminds her of her spouse. He becomes the target of her abuse.” Explanation accepted. Next ques¬ tion: What makes a woman become a wrestler? “I can answer that one,” states Joyce Ford, a Texas lass who switched from riding broncos and brahmas to throwing wrestlers on their feminine coiffures. “I was in line outside the wrestling arena in Dallas when the most gor-