Happy Birthday Morley Callaghan!:
"At a later session, F. Scott Fitzgerald was volunteered as timekeeper, charged with regulating one-minute rounds with two-minute rests between. Fitzgerald became so enthralled with the boxing that he forgot the clock -- until the out-of-gas Hemingway made a desperate lunge at Callaghan, and got knocked on his back by a hard cross to the jaw. When Fitzgerald cried out, 'Oh, my God! I let the round go four minutes!' Hemingway spat his bullfighter's contempt in a new direction: 'All right, Scott...if you want to see me getting the shit kicked out of me, just say so. Only don't say you made a mistake.' "