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...married shortly before he went off to war. Off the gangplank, he got down on his hands & knees, kissed the ground. "This I vowed to do if ever I saw American soil again," he explained gravely; "sometimes out there we're not so sure. . . ." Clutching a native-made cane decorated with "real Jap teeth," he told about his blistering nightlong battle in a shell hole (TIME, Dec. 14), described his exhibition bout with a native champ. "It was murderous," said Corporal Ross, referring to the exhibition bout. ". . . This baby didn't mess around, and I was sort...
...relatives of the Salmaggi family who visit in droves of 40 or 50 at a time. An imposing 6-ft. figure, Salmaggi stalks Manhattan's streets in spats., a hat two feet in diameter, sporting a glittering diamond-studded lapel pin and a silver-headed cane that once belonged to Caruso. But in 1932 Impresarío Salmaggi left his company stranded in Chicago, having paid them off in unsigned checks...
...dance routines, that bring them back to World War I days, and the picture may even manage to convince live agers that the old boys had something. Joan Leslie provides the artistic requirements neatly, and Walter Huston and Richard Wherf do nice jobs as well. Cagney even hurdles a cane a la Cohan, and gets over it safely...
...been able to take all of it. Shortage of shipping forced this country to reduce its normal consumption and to enforce rationing. Moreover, sugar has been taken in large quantities from Hawaii and from Puerto Rico, where some U.S. ships have to go anyway, and pampered domestic beet and cane producers turned in a record crop. Hence the U.S. carryover in Cuba now amounts to about 1,700,000 tons...
...jpbj may arm himself with cow dung and shingles at the respectful distance of 40 paces, standing with his face to the wind. . . ." The "jpbj" was, as all Mississippians knew, Judge Paul B. Johnson (later Governor), Sullens' bitterest political foe. In May 1940 Johnson attacked Sullens with a cane in a Jackson hotel lobby; both men were bloodied in the ensuing battle...