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...interim" world featherweight (126 Ibs.) championship was settled last week in Paris. With the champion, Pvt. Sandy Saddler, as a ringside spectator, Philadelphia Negro Percy Bassett pounded France's Ray Famechon into submission with a fourth-round technical knockout. Famechon was not the only loser. French bookies, who backed their favorite against the weight of the money bet at the fight, lost an estimated 800 million francs ($2,288,000) on the fight...
...working lieutenant governor. Alexis Bayard's father, Thomas Bayard, was a U.S. Senator. So were his grandfather, Thomas Bayard Sr., his great-grandfather, James A. Bayard Jr., his great-uncle, Richard Henry Bayard, his great-great-grandfather, James A. Bayard Sr., and his great-great-great-grandfather, Richard Bassett (who was also a member of the Constitutional Convention). Thomas Bayard Sr., also was U.S. Minister to the Court of St. James's when it was presided over by Victoria, daughter of a ruling house somewhat junior to the Bayards of Delaware. There is nothing like the Bayards...
...students resent this spectacle of being forced into a position of seeking escape form the responsibilities forced on us in the gravest time of our history. The Senate-House rewrite version should prohibit all deferments at the end of the school year except in a few cases. Francis J. Bassett Graduate School of Education
...response to a query as to whether our overseas readers would like a dictionary of the American slang appearing in TIME, Reader J. H. Bassett of Mitcham, Surrey, England, wrote...
Married. Jack Buchanan, fiftyish, versatile British song & dance man, stage & screen director-producer; and Susan Bassett, 30; each for the second time; in Salisbury, Conn...