Word: beatings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Louis, who lost prestige but none of a champion's prerogatives in 15 rounds against Jersey Joe Walcott, signed to defend his heavyweight title in June for the "last time," for 40% of everything (net receipts, movie, radio and television rights). Jersey Joe, the man he had to beat, was still sparring with the promoters: he wanted at least 25%, had been offered only 20%. Probable scene of the big fight: Yankee Stadium...
TIME marred an otherwise good reporting piece by making it appear that the discount rate is a club to beat inflation down. It would probably be an overstatement to call it more than a toothpick...
Shame on TIME for missing a beat on that Marie McDonald item [TIME, Dec. 22]. The sweater-stretcher lady told the reporter that he ought to see her mother's figure. What about us TIME readers...
...getting it started last week, Publisher Walter Annenberg's Inquirer beat John S. Knight's Miami Herald to the draw as the first U.S. newspaper to broadcast regular, daily facsimile editions to its readers. At week's end the Herald, whose first receivers were delayed by weather, got on the air too, for readers at a supermarket. The New York Times and a dozen other dailies were getting ready. They weren't quite sure where facsimile would lead them, but the press had once badly underestimated radio and television, and it did not intend...
...flushing of Big Ed Pauley as a commodities speculator (TIME, Dec. 22) set off one of the most spirited political shoots that Washington has seen in many a year. Pleased with the size and color of its first bird, the Republican-dominated Senate Appropriations Committee began to beat the bushes for more big Administration names...