Word: burmanization
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Rangoon and Southern Burma were lost. But the troops who lost the south had learned, the hard way, how to fight Japs. They might still be too few, but no longer would General Sir Archibald Wavell have to say of them that they were ill-trained for Burman war (see p. 18). Last week the Sydney (Australia) Morning Herald's correspondent, W. S. Mundy, cabled to N.A.N.A. an account of the retreat of 1,000 British troops from Rangoon...
...Simon, oversized son of a Jewish butter-&-egg salesman, was no more worthy a challenger than Gus Dorazio, Red Burman, Al McCoy or the half-dozen other second-raters who have served as punching bags for the Champ. Patterned on the lines of Primo Camera, Giant Simon, a stand-up boxer (6 ft. 4 in.), had nothing up his forearm but the longest reach (83 in.) and the largest mitts (14½ in.) in the fight game...
...Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis: the 13th defense of his title; knocking out Challenger Clarence ("Red") Burman of Baltimore, Jack Dempsey's protégé in the fifth round; in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Same day Louis received a questionnaire from the Detroit draft board (Order No. 378). "If I have to fight for Uncle Sam, the rest of the heavyweights can fight for the title," he drawled...
...such bad shape that a blow might have impaired his sight," explained McCoy's trainer. But Boston's dumfounded fight fans booed and whistled. Joe Louis recently agreed to defend his championship once a month-against second-raters like Red Burman, Gus Dorazio, Tony Novak, Abe Simon. If the rest of this series of fights-cooked up by his co-managers, John Roxborough, Julian Black, and Promoter Mike Jacobs-make Louis look as mediocre as he did in Boston, they may not work out badly for Messrs. Roxborough and Black. They had scheduled Louis for an outdoor fight...
...Freshman soccer team defeated Yale this Saturday 3 to 0 in its final game of a successful season. Captain Thayer Drake, Haskeil Schell, and Eli Burman scored for the Yardlings...