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Last week, fight day for Sugar Ray came in Antwerp, where he was to meet The Netherlands' top middleweight, Jan de Bruin. As always, there was time to kill. Sugar Ray was up at 7, went to Mass in a nearby church at 8, had finished breakfast by 10:30. At 11:30 he shuffled across the Avenue de Keyser from the Century Hotel for the formality of weighing in. After that came a long nap back in the hotel. Not until 3:30 did the real business of the day begin...
...honor guard of Belgian troops smartly presented arms on the dock one day last week as the Canadian freighter Beaver-brae nosed into Antwerp's harbor. In the ship were the last of 170 artillery pieces, 23,000 machine guns and rifles, and 2,500 tons of ammunition shipped from Montreal to equip a Belgian infantry division...
...Antwerp's Le Matin made the appropriate reply: "We did not want your skin. What would we do with your bones...
...Peter Paul Rubens lived hugely. He painted more pictures|than any other artist of the era, created 'hundreds of masterpieces. Portrait commissions and diplomatic missions made him a familiar figure at the courts of Europe, but he could most often be found at his mansion in Antwerp, surrounded by assistants and works-in-progress, plus his eight children, hunting dogs, peacocks, Spanish horses, ancient sculptures and cameos. "His life from one end to the other," said a French critic, "is one of those which reconcile us with life. In everything, he is a man who does honor to humanity...
MALIN VAN ANTWERP...