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...wore soft black felt hats with white bands, special T-shirts with "The Counts" lettered on them; dressed up, they wore small golden crowns on their lapels. The loot from a series of petty holdups and strong-arm robberies kept them well supplied with money; the Counts rented a $4O-a-month apartment, stocked it with whisky and used it as a place to bring chosen bobby-soxers. When a neighboring gang, the Brewerytowners, tried to muscle in on them, the Counts took them on in street fights. But Angel Williams, always the organizer, said, "This is a lousy setup...
...knockout punch, it was obvious that he would have done so sooner or later, in the next fight if not in this one. And the resounding title, "heavyweight champion of the world," suits Rocky Marciano (43 straight wins, 38 of them by knockouts) better than it suited old (4O-plus), often beaten (15 recorded times before last week) Jersey Joe Walcott. Marciano is too awkward and too much a fighter of one talent ever to be a Louis, but the crown fits him better than passably, and it will take a good fighter to get it away from him. Probably...
Sailing through the dead of winter, the Miru was battered by fierce storms, 4O-ft. waves and 75-m.p.h. winds. Water and weather carried away three sea anchors, washed a compass overboard, smashed the rigging, damaged the engine and soaked the cabins. Thinking of his family, Dr. Davis was tempted to turn back. But then he thought of his seafaring ancestors, who sailed these waters in canoes centuries ago. and decided to push...
...Wage Stabilization Board, meeting for the first time under Chairman Archibald Cox, a 4O-year-old Harvard law professor, was already in trouble. It faced 12,000 applications for wage boosts for millions of workers, and new ones were pouring in at the rate of 1,800 a week. The board had inherited all the problems from the old board's steel wage fiasco...
Luckier than all the prospectors were the traders who grubstaked them. Isaac Alcolumbre, a 4O-year-old Macapa merchant, collected 66 Ibs. of gold, worth $54,000, on loans totaling $15,000. Young Florisberto Pimentel resigned his job as a government health officer, invested his $600 savings in medicines and sold them for $3,000. "One more trip and I can set up my own drugstore," he said...