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...Bernard, formerly Oom the Omnipotent, at his handsome Clarkstown Country Club in Nyack, N.Y. He is an ex-barber who found there was money in "sex worship" and later took up Yoga, the Hindu art of controlling mind through muscle-(he trained Prize Fighter Lou Nova for his bout with Joe Louis). Oom said he could help Junior for a "membership fee" of $125. His method: "We kid people out of being grouchy...
Knauth remembers his Berlin correspondent days as one bout after another with the Nazis. He got his best chance to study Hitler's bigwigs closeup at the Berlin Auto Show, when he talked his way into a restricted area, found himself rubbing elbows with Hitler himself, Hess, Goebbels and Göring. Twice he was arrested by the Gestapo-once for photographing a riot, again for being in a café suspected as a gathering place for people who didn't like Nazis...
...championship bout drew 10,247 customers. Four nights later, Welterweight Walker ("Sugar Ray Robinson") Smith (148½ lbs.) proved that punches speak louder than titles. A crowd of 18,060 jam-packed Madison Square Garden to see chocolate-colored Sugar Ray knock the block off game Middleweight Jake La Motta...
...inclined to discount wartime record-breakers, some are already comparing French-Canadian Maurice Richard with the incomparable Howie Morenz in speed, aggressiveness, accuracy, durability. Durable he certainly is, by any standard. Said he one afternoon last month: "I'm all tire out. Dis afternoon I move my partment bout tree block and can't get no truck. So my brudder and me we move everything. Don't depen' too much on me." That night he got five goals and three assists -a league scoring record...
Into Mexico City this week debouched an army of diplomats, drawn by the "Conference of American Republics on Problems of War & Peace "-official title of the next semifinal bout on postwar organization of the world. The diplomatic army of "Hemisphere nations cooperating against the Axis" consisted of some 300 generals. With them came secretaries, lobbyists, newsmen, propagandists, camp followers. They routed indignant tourists from hotel rooms, jampacked the town and, turning their backs on snow-clad Popocatepetl, eyed the suburban hill where stands Chapultepec Castle, site of the conference...