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...TIME warns Sweden's lepo-ornithol-ogists not to boo too loudly, reminds them that Indiana's fur-fowl is known to lay only sterile eggs...
...amateurs didn't know everything about boxing, but they had plenty of fight. And that's what draws the crowds. Last week 19,216 noisy fans crammed into Manhattan's Madison Square Garden to boo and applaud the Golden Gloves's national finals. The fans saw plenty of the wild haymakers and weird grimaces which made good action shots for the photographers at the ringside (see cut). A few connoisseurs went for a special reason: to take a look at Negro Bob Foxworth, 22, touted as the coming Joe Louis...
...been bad enough having Harold Ickes slam down his mitt and stomp off the field. Picking a substitute was almost worse. With big Ed Pauley ducking pop bottles, and Harry Truman's Missouri infield hobbling weak grounders, the President's critics were ready to boo almost anyone he sent in. But last week some of them actually found themselves applauding his new Secretary of the Interior, tall (6 ft. 3 in.), huge (237 Ibs.), young (38) Julius Albert Krug, last chairman of the late War Production Board...
...late oil millionaire, Edward S. Harkness, benefactor of Harvard and Yale, who was no Exonian-just a friend of Perry's. His other friends include hundreds of alumni and parents, students-who see less of him now than their predecessors did-and his grandchildren, who call him "Boo." He was an English professor at Williams College when he was hired for Exeter; but at Exeter he teaches no classes. He is casual, pleasant, hearty, but no backslapper. Summers at Martha's Vineyard he conducts secular Sunday services, reading favorite passages from Tom Sawyer...
...Boo-Hoo. For eleven years Guy Lombardo's band has been picked by 700 U.S. radio editors as the top sweet band on the air. The Royal Canadians gross nearly a million dollars a year, have cut 500 phonograph discs. Last year the Royal Canadians were acclaimed by Orchestra World for introducing more song hits (250) than any other band. Some 30 were written by Brother Carmen-among them Confucius Say, Coquette, Oh, Moitle and Boo-Hoo (BooHoo, I'll tell my mama on you, the little game that you played has made her baby oh! so blue...