Word: bantamweight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ambassador to the U.S. Bantamweight, bespectacled, intensely earnest Paul Hanna is himself wholly optimistic about the possibility of solving social problems, and is one of the most rapidly moving parts of the Stanford School of Education machine run by Dean Grayson Neikirk Kefauver (TIME, Oct. 18). Born in Sioux City in 1902, Hanna took his doctor's degree at Columbia after graduating from St. Paul's little Hamline University. For several years he taught at Columbia's Teachers College, archseminary of "progressivism...
...First Negro to be a world's champion: Bantamweight George Dixon...
Cause of the order was bantamweight Brigadier General James I. Muir, commander of the 44th Division. In the battle of the Carolinas, General Muir had to get his outfit across the dried-up Pee Dee River, where the only available bridge had been "destroyed" and he could not get his motorized equipment across the rocky river bed. His solution: an order to the custodian of a power dam upstream to give him some water. The custodian deferred to military might. When the river had risen two feet, the General's engineers took guns and trucks across on improvised floats...
...Last year only three "world's champions" were recognized by both N.B.A. and the isolationists: Heavyweight Joe Louis, Light Heavyweight Billy Conn, Bantamweight Lou Salica...
...will never turn back." The first round had clearly gone to the bantamweight. Now it was up to the heavyweight to move in again. Whether the second round would be another story was anyone's guess, but that the Italians intended to try was certain. At Innsbruck Italian and German Commanders in Chief Pietro Badoglio and Wilhelm Keitel met and talked strategy. It must have been an embarrassment to both these old soldiers to consider that if the Italians could not knock over the Greeks by themselves, the Germans might have to come in through Yugoslavia. This week Italians...