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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three days, Joe Louis lay low in Harlem. Then the champ, smoked out by the New York Post's Columnist Jimmy Cannon, talked for three hours about the fight* without once mentioning the name of his opponent, Jersey Joe Walcott. "He did so many wrong things," said Joe, "I saw every opening, but I couldn't go get him. ... I couldn't do a lot of things." The trouble was, said Joe, he was dehydrated. "I killed myself taking off four pounds. But that ain't no excuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fight Talk | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

...spokesman" to inform the world that the thing had dropped dead. Three days later lovelorn Lana arrived in Manhattan from Hollywood with her four-year-old daughter Cheryl (who had a cold), and a new-found friend, grown-up John Alden Talbot (who looked fit as a fiddle). Hollywood Columnist Louella Parsons explained all about it: "Lana said . . . 'The separation . . . has changed Ty. . . . He came back* determined to spend his time fighting Communism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 15, 1947 | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...nominate a fearless fighter in a blundering world . . . Columnist and Newspaperman Drew Pearson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 8, 1947 | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...last week, wrote Columnist Billy Rose, "a daffy story popped up on my desk" (the kidney-shaped one in the office Flo Ziegfeld used to use). It seemed, wrote Rose, that somebody's spinster Aunt Helen had died, and when the minister drew back the casket lid at the funeral, what should be inside but the uniformed corpse of a two-star general? The embarrassed undertaker said they might as well go ahead with the service. Aunt Helen had apparently been buried in Arlington Cemetery that morning, and only an act of Congress could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pass the Chestnuts | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

Billy Rose might have used the same excuse for dishing out this chestnut as if it were fresh-roasted. If he had been reading rival Columnist Leonard Lyons last February he would have known better. In one week, six people had offered twists of the same yarn to Lennie-eleven years after he had first "naively printed" the tale. And only a week before Billy printed it, Lyons had again tagged it a legend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pass the Chestnuts | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

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