Word: barrow
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...polo team. For a while he edited an off-the-campus paper stridently called New, once scooped the college and West Coast newspapers by tracking down a "kidnapped" college queen. He graduated from college in 1935, the year his father died with Wiley Post in the Point Barrow, Alaska plane crash. With his share of the estate he bought the Citizen, was a full-fledged publisher at 23. He kept a union shop, covered labor news himself, sweated long nights over heavy editorials on international affairs. He took a turn at covering the war in Spain, was bombed in Barcelona...
...Army faction maintains that Corporal Joseph Barrow, world's heavyweight champion, is just another soldier and should fight for the Army only. Another group, grateful for the champion's patriotic gesture of donating his only 1942 prizefight earnings ($83,246) to Army & Navy relief funds instead of using the money to pay his 1941 income tax, feels that Louis should be given a chance to raise the $117,000 he owes the Government...
...week's end, the case of Corporal Barrow was put up to Secretary of War Stimson...
...Creek economics, the exchange of goods and services, is primitive but enormously complicated. One debt got Author Rawlings "in so labyrinthine a maze" that she never expected to get out. She thinks it was punishment for shooting Mr. Martin's pig. The pig was a pretty, "titian-haired" barrow, "light of spirit and rounded into delicious curves by his long diet of [Mrs. Rawlings'] biddy-mash, skimmed milk and petunias." One morning angry Author Rawlings "stepped to the petunia bed and shot him dead where he fed." Too late she discovered that the pig belonged...
While news photographers clucked and clicked, the heavyweight champion of the world stood impassively, as always, in this outfit he will wear for Uncle Sam. Joe Louis Barrow had passed his physical exam a few days before with the comment: "Guess I haven't got those flat feet I was afraid of." Asked what he would do if he saw a Jap, he drawled: "In the line of duty I'll defend myself." On the day he was due to report at camp, Joe left his suite in Harlem's best hotel, had his chauffeur drive...