Word: boxer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jose Iturbi's Falstaffian zest does not begin or end with music. He has logged 1,400 hours as a pilot, over 20 years as a topflight pianist, thousands of miles as a motorcyclist, and hundreds of rounds as an amateur boxer...
...touch, he himself never knew. Like Cousin Bertie, he was born (in Chicago, Jan. 6, 1879) with a silver spoon in his mouth. After Groton, like his cousin, he went to Yale. A year before his graduation, he traipsed off to China to run messages for correspondents covering the Boxer Rebellion. His father, Robert W. Patterson, was Joseph Medill's crown prince on the Tribune, and gave young Joe his first $15-a-week job. Impatient with the plodding Tribune and full of admiration for Hearst, he quit in disgust, won a seat in the Illinois legislature, stumped Chicago...
...Duke of Hamilton, 43, headed home after a U.S. business trip and a visit to his old Oxford pal, New York State Boxing Commissioner, Eddie Eagan. The business: getting a new transatlantic air service under way. Once an amateur boxer of note, the greying, fiddle-fit Lord said he rarely put on the gloves any more -last time was about a year ago, with one of his two small sons. Did he want them to be boxers? Said the noncommittal Duke: they could be whatever they wanted...
Between 1919 and 1929, pensions to World War I veterans and their survivors increased by 866%. Veterans of the Spanish-American War, the Boxer Rebellion, the Philippine Insurrection, World Wars I & II can collect as high as $250 a month. A veteran disabled in peacetime (while still a member of the armed forces) can collect as high as $187.50 a month. Long after discharge, a veteran totally disabled by such civilian misadventures as falling downstairs or getting hit by a truck can collect as high as $60 a month...
...Warlord of Mazelaine-champion boxer-TIME, Feb. 25] in a show last year, and I found that he was very conceited in his own doggish manner. Could it be that he realizes his importance in the dog world? I don't think it is like a boxer to act this way, but such is life when you have all the things you want...