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Damn the Expense. Bankrolled by West Coast Industrialist Norton Simon, whose Hunt Foods & Industries, Inc., controls 43% of McCall Corp.'s stock, McCall's is out to clobber the Journal-and damn the expense. Thanks to its enormous magazine job-printing plant in Dayton, the parent corporation stays a million or so dollars in the black. But McCall's has been a money loser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Battle Among the Women | 7/28/1961 | See Source »

...Zulu giant named Ezekiel Dhlamini, a prizefighter of the 1950s who became the heavyweight champion of black South Africa and was known throughout the union as "King Kong." A hero until his death four years ago, he has since become something of an African god. He would clobber his challengers in the ring and later pulp them for good measure in the street outside. Braggart as well as warrior, he let his crown slide, ended up as a dance-hall bouncer who jealously murdered his mistress. Begging for capital punishment, he was given twelve years at hard labor and drowned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater Abroad: Cry, the Beloved Country | 3/3/1961 | See Source »

...going to go after Nixon. People get fed up with that kind of stuff. My problem here is to get myself known, to get these people to take me seriously. If this were in New Hampshire, or Maryland, where people know me, I'd clobber Hubert. I'd bury him." Humphrey's Financial Strength: "I know people in New York have contributed heavily. If Hubert Humphrey can't raise money under these circumstances, with all the people who want to stop me in Wisconsin, like Symington and Johnson and the rest, he's just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Candidate Talking | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

...welcome planes on landing or to see them off on takeoffs. Often they fly smack into an airborne craft. They have dived into propellers, smashed against expensive radomes, causing about $300,000 damage a year. Far worse is the ever-present danger that a Midway albatross may someday really clobber a $6,000,000 plane and cause a fatal crackup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Man v. Bird | 10/26/1959 | See Source »

Shedding less useful light than a firefly at noon, Yankee Manager Casey Stengel, 68, long used to watching his hirelings clobber the Washington Senators, flummoxed singlehanded a different sort of Senator with his favorite weapon: syntax. As a witness before a subcommittee hearing testimony on a bill to exempt baseball from antitrust action, Stengel was asked by Tennessee Democrat Estes Kefauver why the bill should be passed. "Well," said Casey, clarifying things, "you can retire with an annuity at 50, and I further state that I am not a member of that plan. You'd think, my goodness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 21, 1958 | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

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