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Died. Con Conrad (real name: Conrad K. Dober), 49, famed songwriter (Barney Google, Memory Lane, Margie), divorced husband of Actress Francine Larrimore, discoverer of Sob-singer Helen Morgan and Crooner Bing Crosby; after long illness; in Van Nuys, Calif...
Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co., sixth largest U. S. Steel producer, $30,000,000 in 4% convertible debentures-$12,500,000 to repay bank loans, $17,500,000 for expansion. The issue, postponed when it was first proposed last October, sold sluggishly. Underwriters headed by Kuhn, Loeb & Co. and Smith, Barney & Co. were said to have nearly $4,500,000 left on their hands...
...intervening eleven months, 25-year-old Henry Armstrong had snatched the featherweight (126 Ib.) championship away from Petey Sarron (by a knockout), then, jumping right over the lightweight class, had punched the welterweight (147 Ib.) crown off Barney Ross's head. The first pugilist to hold both the featherweight and the welterweight titles at the same time, ambitious Henry Armstrong last week went back to get Lou Ambers' lightweight (135 Ib.) crown...
...pugilistic freak is Henry Armstrong. A bantamweight from the waist down and a welterweight from the waist up, he has arms as fast as Glenn Cunningham's legs -and just as tireless. He can throw 1,200 punches in a 15-round fight (as he did against Barney Ross last May) and appear no more fatigued than if he had spent an evening at a Harlem shindig. He has fought on an average of twice a month in the past year, has knocked out 35 of his last 38 opponents. Most fight fans agreed that the little Iron...
ROPE ENOUGH-John Stephen Strange -Crime Club ($2). News Cameraman Barney Gantt stumbles into the middle of a death struggle between a corrupt New York political machine and a reform group which results in three murders. Dialogue: good. Action: exciting. Plot: middling...