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...news of the H-bomb in the papers," said a man in London last week, "and then I look at my neighbor and think: 'How can that fool sit there and read how they're going to blow him up and never bat an eye?' " Doc Hicks, proprietor of a barbershop on South Audubon Road, Indianapolis, summed up for his customers: "I don't think the public understands it. That's why they don't talk much about it." The "it" was certainly hard to understand, and so men talked of the instinct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Urge to Do Something | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

Garrulous Jack ("Doc") Kearns, 67, knows how it feels to manage real champions; he handled both Jack Dempsey* and Mickey Walker. He dismisses all the big fellows fighting today with one word-"Bums"-but adds quickly that he is handling "the best bum of the lot." His bum is Light Heavyweight Joey Maxim (real name: Joseph Antonio Berardinelli), 26, a clever, stand-up boxer from Cleveland with a machine-gun left and an accurate right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Best Bum of the Lot | 2/6/1950 | See Source »

First Voice--"I reckon we better say something' over pore ol' Doc...

Author: By Donlad Carswell, | Title: The Outlaw | 1/13/1950 | See Source »

Second Voice--"So long Doc...

Author: By Donlad Carswell, | Title: The Outlaw | 1/13/1950 | See Source »

...Team. Husky Doc Reeves looks what he is: an ex-football player. Just short of six feet, he still has a lithe, athletic bearing, no trace of waistline bulge. A broken neck (compression of the fourth cervical vertebra), suffered in the last quarter of his last game as a guard at Midland College at Fremont, still bothers him occasionally and he gets Mrs. Reeves to massage it. To encourage high-school athletics, Dr. Reeves serves (without fee) as physician for the football and basketball teams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Country Doctor, 1950 | 1/9/1950 | See Source »

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