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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With that performance, Rocky got his foot in the door. Three days later, at Toots Shor's restaurant in Manhattan, a battery of publicity men escorted tieless Rocky into a room filled with cold cuts and sports reporters. He and ex-Middleweight Champion Tony Zale signed a contract to fight for the title on June 9 in Newark's Ruppert Stadium, Rocky's guarantee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Rooky's Road Back | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

...seen entering the girl's apartment by a man, identity unknown. The publisher sets out to find the witness. He puts the super-sleuthing editor (Ray Milland) of his detective magazine on the trail. Milland is told that he is after "a payoff man in an enormous war-contract scandal," but it doesn't take him long to find out that he is really chasing himself: he was the witness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 19, 1948 | 4/19/1948 | See Source »

Students whose card tastes run only as far as Seven Card Stud, or even the more elite Contract flends may be interested to learn that the University owns a pack of Hindustani cards invented by a queen to prevent her husband from pulling out the hairs in his beard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Library's Exhibit Features Unusual Hindustani Cards | 4/17/1948 | See Source »

...Evil (Rank; United _ Artists) is a moldy old (made in Britain in 1943) sop for the insatiable U.S. fans of James Mason, who did not make a picture last year because of contract trouble. This one will not satisfy the fans for long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Also Showing Apr. 12, 1948 | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

Estimates made by the Union after scrutiny of the current Club-Union contract claim that, if the Club granted the demands in full, the cost would be $35,000 per year. This would mean a $5 increase in dues for each of the Club's 7,000 members, who now pay $60 yearly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Union Claims Harvard Club Refuses to Arbitrate Strike | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

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