Word: boxers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the carpetbag era, the family moved to Manhattan. Young Bernie went to City College, acquired a Phi Beta Kappa key, a reputation as an amateur boxer and ballplayer, and a deaf left ear as the result of a blow with a baseball bat. That deaf ear kept him out of West Point, his first choice for a career; and it has also enabled him, at crucial times, to hear only the questions he cares to answer...
Promoters of this huge program are Major General Edwin P. Parker Jr., 52, who makes his staff desk-warmers go through a cross-country run and obstacle race once a week, and one of his battalion commanders, Lieut. Colonel James L. Grier. A onetime West Point boxer, Colonel Grier started the program by rounding up 800 pairs of boxing gloves, showing his troops how to use them...
Killed in Action. Georges André, 54, famed French athlete (Rugby player, swimmer, boxer, fencer, cyclist, and track and field star); at Mateur, North Africa. An Olympic ace before World War I, he recovered from serious ankle wounds to set or break more than 40 national track and field records (100-yd. dash: 9.6 seconds), still held 14 at his death...
Cagey as a boxer readying a blow or parrying a punch, Japan shifted its weight in the South Pacific. On the eastern side of New Guinea, the Japs had been pushed back. Now fresh troops and supplies were being pushed forward into bases farther west - Timor, Amboina, the Aru Islands and New Guinea's western shore...
...people in U.S. radio have made such a good thing out of insulting advertisers on such a scale as a onetime bookkeeper and dance-hall manager named Joe Gentile, 34, and his childhood pal Ralph Binge, 38, onetime plumber's helper, amateur boxer, and door-to-door salesman. The eleven-year-old program has 40-odd sponsors who paid some $250,000 last year for the privilege of hearing their products and services derided. There is also a waiting list of hopeful sponsors. But last week Gentile & Binge refused to take on any more. They thought that three...