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...sort of constitutional Camelot. It boasts 130 castles (but no university), pristine forests where wild boar are still hunted, crystalline rivers that teem with crayfish, trout and, of course, water nymphs. The Luxembourgeois, who are walking advertisements for their cuisine (famed specialties: thrush pie and partridge canape), brag that it is "French in quality, German in quantity." In other respects as well, they claim to have Europe's highest living standards. There is neither unemployment nor slums; illiteracy was banished in 1847, and the duchy's booming steel industry is one of the world's most productive...
TIME has sometimes been known to describe how many thousands of words our correspondents filed to us on a given story, and how many books a researcher worked her way through to provide background for a writer. But we never brag about how many words it takes to bring the story to the reader. We would rather be praised for economy...
...said it before, Archie Moore will fall in four, Cassius Marcellus Clay's problem is that nobody wants to take him seriously. Now they may have to. Last week in Los Angeles, the cocky young Kentuckian, known to his friends as the Louisville Lip, made good his brag. Halfway through the fourth round, he knocked out tired old Archie Moore, whose age (either 45 or 48) and 220 fights should have put him in retirement long ago. The victory did something for Clay's prestige as the seventh-ranking heavyweight (Moore, after all, once was a champion...
...STRUCK-NOT STRUCK OUT." boasted the New York Daily News in a Page One headline. But there was little enough to brag about. Despite a walkout of 1,123 Newspaper Guild members, the News struggled into print with one skimpy 16-page issue-run off on Hearst's Journal-American presses. Then the News suspended publication, the first and so far the only strike-bound Manhattan daily in what had originally looked like a management-labor showdown...
Although such forthrightness helped reduce race trouble in northeast North Carolina-it remains remarkably free of it to this day-it only heightened the Independent's unpopularity. In a backhanded compliment, the State Port Pilot over in Brunswick County raised this brag to its masthead: "Most Cussed Newspaper in North Carolina, Outside of Elizabeth City" The Independent ultimately commanded a paid audience of 6,000 spread over 30 states, but it went virtually adless for years at a stretch, fought a losing lifelong battle against financial failure. In 1937, after Editor Saunders tried unsuccessfully to convert the Independent...