Word: besting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Florencio Loza, for eight years on the federal bench of La Plata. "I have never allowed any outside influence to interfere with justice in my court," he wrote in an open letter to the Minister of Justice. "I .thought it was my duty to devote to my job my best efforts. With this record I now leave my country's judiciary...
...well qualified to teach; he learned his own technique from one of the best: the great French pedagogue Isidor Philipp. He also picked up a few hints from his dad. Stravinsky once heard Soulima as a child playing Schumann's Etudes Symphoniques and stopped him: "Tell your teacher he will teach you my music and I will teach you Chopin and Schumann myself...
...vitamins they had brought along, and something else besides, to get back in front on the next day. Snead had to fire a snappy 68 to stay abreast of Britain's little Charlie Ward for the first 18 holes; Sam finally won, 6 and 5. But the best match of all was the last and deciding one, between Mangrum and Fred Daly. Said Mangrum after 18 holes: "This Irishman is tough; I had a 65 and I'm only one up." After lunch, Mangrum fell one hole behind before the pace told on Daly, who blew...
...winning his first big fight in New York since he was banned in 1946 (for failing to report a $100,000 bribe offer), Roughhouse Rocky regained his old form as the best drawing card in fightdom. He will probably continue to be until the day he is foolhardy enough to fight a good man his own size-somebody like Sugar Ray Robinson...
...dawn of press freedom was that many of the newcomers were former Nazi and super-nationalist editors and publishers, originally barred because of unsavory political records. Max Willmay, who used to publish Julius Streicher's anti-Semitic Der Sturmer, was now pub lishing two Bavarian papers. Dr. Othmar Best, editor of the Deutsche Allgemeim Zeitung in its Nazi heyday, had started the Nlirnberg Neue Kurier, and ex-Brownshirt Gustav Schellenberger inaugurated the Wiesbadener Tageblatt this week. Immediate effect of the new newspapers was not political but economic. In im poverished Germany, where the average reader can afford only...