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...professional heavyweight finalists were also two Americans − Claude ("Kill er") Brown of Louisville, Ky., a dead-ringer for Tony Galento, outpointed Sailor Harry Thompson of Many, La. Both were carried piggyback to the ring to keep their feet dry. The American who worked the hardest was former world heavyweight Champion Jack Sharkey, who refereed most of the bouts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Biggest Event | 2/28/1944 | See Source »

Said Lord Lang: "Recent attacks upon cities like Hamburg, Frankfort and Berlin seem to me to go a long way beyond what hitherto has been the declared policy of the Government and the Bomber Command." Viscount Cranborne, Government lead er of the House of Lords, gave the prelates a firm reply. He denied that R.A.F. bombings were terror raids, told how last summer's flights over Hamburg had cost the Germans 400,000,000 man-hours, insisted that industrial life ceases only when "the whole life of the cities in which they are situated [is brought] to a standstill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Is Bombing Bad for the Bomber? | 2/21/1944 | See Source »

...severed his jugular vein, been sentenced to 20 years in prison.) Oleander ordered Lily around, kept house for her, encouraged her love affairs, helped her marry, scandalized the neighbors, dwarfed her surroundings with her tawdry queenliness -in brief, a "burning pillar of a woman." Grant Sweetland, the ne'er-do-well son of a rich St. Louis family, a drunkard who in his childhood had tortured small ani mals, was "loosely groomed, indifferently tailored," with "a soft, rather overheated look ... a cowlick which dipped damp-looking across his brow," soft, womanish hands and a silhouette which, while not paunchy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No. 22 | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

...sidewalks faw? Maybe dey wanna have a Park Avenoo over here instead of Broadway. Leave it ta hell alone or it won't be Broadway no more. Put up a sign dat says spit out your choon gum folks, dis is old Broadway; spit er out. Don't put no constrictions on da people. Leave 'em ta hell alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jimmy, That Well-Dressed Man | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

...such ultra-slick modern methods, the MNR (Movimiento Nacional Revolucionario) came into pow er in Bolivia. The rebels dashed about in Lend-Lease jeeps, invaded the homes of Government leaders and dragged them off to prison. Pro-U.S. President Enrique Peñaranda was later exiled to Chile. His 80-year-old mother died of fright. Two of Bolivia's three great tin barons, Mauricio Hochschild and Carlos Victor Aramayo, went into hiding. The greatest, Simon I. Patino, was safe in the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York, where he refused to answer the telephone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOLIVIA: Good Neighbor Trouble | 1/3/1944 | See Source »

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