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Before another round had ended, the sentimentally pro-Louis crowd had the answer. The doomsday lefts & rights that won Joe the title from Braddock, and turned Max Schmeling and Max Baer to butter, were gone. For a dozen years Louis had been the best in the business, but the years had run out on him. At 218 Ibs., 17 over his prime weight, he was a paunchy shadow of the Brown Bomber. Charles spotted Louis 33^ Ibs., but he out-jabbed and outsmarted him almost...
Born. To Tony Martin, 36, butter-voiced cinemactor and nightclub crooner, and Cyd Charisse, 26, ballerina turned movie dancer (Fiesta): their first child (her second), a son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Tony. Weight...
...loans and purchases. Furthermore, CCC cannot unload the surpluses on its biggest potential customer, the armed services. Reason: CCC by law adds a carrying charge to its selling price, and in some cases the total exceeds current wholesale prices. Result: the services are buying such items as butter in the open market, although CCC has 190 million Ibs. in its deep freeze...
...judge by The Man Who Lived Backward, the Florida sun has reduced Author Ross's butter-pat leftism to a soft, liberal mush. He spreads it thick on every page of the novel. Yet, at the same time, Ross clearly feels a futility in the brand of liberalism he professes. In this confusion of feelings, he apparently could not decide whether to satirize or eulogize his intellectual liberal hero; so he did both. The result is a hectic sort of politico-literary game of tail-the-donkey, combining some elements of post office. What rescues the book from total...
...over the U.S., consumers snared the Wall Streeter's eloquent indignation. Scare-buying and hoarding had slackened off but still prices crept up. Since Korea, meat had jumped 10% and 15%, butter and eggs were up at least a few pennies. Coffee, which had been riding high even before Korea, had managed to jump another 6? or 9?. "Sugar, soap, flour-things you never bother to price before buying-have gone up," complained a West Los Angeles housewife...