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...Robert Oppenheimer (TIME, June 14). He lost both cases. A year ago, on the eve of his 81st birthday, Lawyer Davis complained that he was getting old: "Most of the crowd I worked with are gone." Last week in Charleston, S.C., John W. Davis lost a bout with pneumonia, and rejoined the old crowd.* It was just three weeks before his (and Thomas Jefferson's) birthday...
...onetime personal physician to Franklin D. Roosevelt and now head of the International College of Surgeons, stoutly denied that Roosevelt was a dying man at Yalta. F.D.R.'s wan appearance was no index to his general health, said Dr. Mclntire. The President had lost 15 Ibs. after a bout with flu and bronchitis, looked scrawny-necked because his shirt collars were needlessly loose. "He refused to buy any new shirts," recalled Mclntire. "The President was kind of tight about some things...
...alley swordplay of François Villon or the duels-to-the-death of the Three Musketeers. The 20th-century field of honor was limited to the narrow boundaries of a long rubber mat, leaving little room for spectacular derring-do. Four judges and a director hovered around each bout to call the touches and check on fencing protocol. The undergraduates who crossed blades in the National Collegiate Fencing Championships last week could be sure no opponent would blind them with a handful of dust; no one would slip a sword through their legs, slice a tendon and leave them...
...division, Charley Harding of the Bellboys wrapped the Funster's Bill Miller in a guillotine for a pin in 1:30 of the second period. Tim Anderson of Eliot, division titlist for the last two years, won an 8-3 decision over Pete Gaynor of Leverett in the unlimited bout. Gaynor, who pinned his three opponents in the preliminaries, moved surprisingly fast for his 300-plus pounds, scoring a reversal and an escape over Anderson...
...Keating (123), Mike Holmes (137) Dave Jordan (147) Len Miller (157), Casper Cronk (167), and Unlimited Pete Morrison lost his preliminary bout...