Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three-the Cleveland Browns, the Baltimore Colts and the San Francisco 49ers, joined the new group; three more-the Buffalo Bills, the Los Angeles Dons and the Brooklyn-New York Yankees-will each merge with one or another of the 13 survivors. The players of the remaining team, the Chicago Hornets, will go into a common league pool. The new league will be divided into two divisions, National and American, and starting next year, division winners will meet in a world series...
...time after the second round of his ten-round exhibition fight with Pat Valentino in Chicago last week, Joe Louis could have knocked his stumbling opponent out. Instead, the retired champion nursed the mop-haired San Franciscan along with blood-drawing lefts until the clock showed 2:45 of the eighth round. Then, as if on cue, he hit Valentino with a vicious left hook and a chopping right, neatly dropping his victim in front of the ringside seat of new N.B.A. Heavyweight Champion Ezzard Charles. Murmured Charles, who had finished Valentino in eight rounds himself last October, "Man, that...
...week it had been identified by no less an authority than Maurice Goldblatt, director of the Notre Dame University art galleries, who first rescued Clouet from obscurity (his paintings were long known only as the work of "the Master of Moulins"), has since ascribed 20 other paintings to him. Chicago Lawyer Bailey Stanton, who picked up the picture on Goldblatt's advice, might well turn a $100,000 profit on his purchase...
...million-volt betatron installed last summer at the University of Illinois' College of Medicine in Chicago has already proved to be a valuable instrument in the treatment of cancer. The first patient treated with it (TIME, Sept. 5) was Fordyce Hotchkiss, 72, a retired Railway Express employee who had an egg-sized cancer of the larynx. Last week Hotchkiss was thin and nervous, but his cancer was pronounced "healed...
...Chicago, the Santa of the merchants' State Street Council was paraded on a float into Soldier Field between the halves of a professional football game. A group of jeering teenagers began to pelt him with snowballs, hit him squarely in the face. As Santa exited, angrily shaking his fist, he moaned: "There's a dead spot in my popularity-I just found...