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...American middleweight championship, a title which has been vacant since Sugar Ray Robinson retired. Also at stake: a world title bout with European Champion Randy Turpin in August. Punching Paddy Young's campaign plan was simple: bore in swinging for a knockout. Bobo Olson, a far fancier fighter, figured to win on points...
...Long Voyage Home. In Masterton, N.Z., Pigeon Fancier Robert Stewart looked in his loft, announced that his entry in the 1947 pigeon race from Christchurch to Masterton (300 miles) had finally made...
...week's end, Jimmy and his three companions were scheduled for return to Detroit and the civilization they love. Wolf-fancier Smits was disappointed. Said he: "Dogs go wild readily, but these wolves were just too tame...
Astronomer Willem J. Luyten of the University of Minnesota is the world's leading small-star fancier. Last week he was beaming over the smallest star yet discovered: a "white dwarf," 25 light years away from the earth, which he found and analyzed with the help of Dr. E. F. Carpenter of the University of Arizona. The littlest star (Catalog No. L 886-6) is hot (15,000° to 20,000° F.), and it shines with a white light. But it is only 2,500 miles in diameter, not much larger than the moon...
...hard-drinking, free-spending Oilman Glenn McCarthy has been trying to find some new money fast. In November, he dashed over to Egypt, trying for an oil franchise (TIME, Dec. 3). Next, he rushed off to Guatemala, talked of starting a chain of hotels and a gambling resort fancier than Monte Carlo. Last month McCarthy announced plans to sell 10 million shares of stock, at $2 a share, in a brand-new wildcatting company, Glenn McCarthy...