Word: armstrong
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Other popular items include all science fiction magazines (Galaxy loads here) and racing publications (Armstrong's is the first choice of Harvard men). All the news weeklies sell very well, with "Time" overwhelmingly tops. Sales of sport magazines, crossword puzzle books, and "little magazines" are only fair...
...feature attraction at the Garden that night was Henry Armstrong v. Fritzie Zivic. While the 19-year-old kid watched wide-eyed, Zivic gave the great Henry Armstrong-the worst drubbing of his career. Robinson, so the story goes, resolved revenge then & there. A year later, further infuriated when Zivic referred to him as "a punk amateur kid," Robinson got his chance. Though his detractors still claimed that Robinson was a weak counterpuncher, the skinny (139 Ibs.) kid, just half an inch under 6 ft., outgunned ex-Welterweight Champion Zivic at his own game: counterpunching. Sugar...
...Louis Armstrong Story (Columbia 8 sides LP). Collectors who have been scrounging in secondhand stores for years in search of battered copies of Armstrong classics can relax and enjoy more than three hours of Satchmo's trumpeting-from the free-for-all New Orleans style (Gut Bucket Blues, Heebie Jeebies) to his comparatively slicked-up versions of Stardust and Body and Soul...
...campus of Georgia's little (210 full-time students) Piedmont College had been in a turmoil ever since the news leaked out that the college was accepting $500 a month from antiSemitic, anti-Negro Judge George Armstrong's educational association, headed by Major General (ret.) George Van Horn Moseley (TIME, March 12). Last week the uproar boiled over. President James E. Walter, who had already fired one instructor for objecting to the gift, fired Treasurer David B. Eddy, who had never made any secret of his anti-Moseley feeling. Cracked one trustee about all the protests: "The only...
Died. Henry W. (Harry) Armstrong, 71, who at 17 wrote the music to Sweet Adeline; after long illness; in The Bronx, N.Y. Called My Old New England Home when written in 1896, the song was not published until seven years and several revisions later, eventually spread through vaudeville, tavern, and singing society to become the nation's favorite drinking ballad. Composer Armstrong, who also wrote / Love My Wife, but, Oh You Kid, made close to $100,000 from Sweet Adeline...