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Bratton, 23, a stand-up boxer with a stabbing left, a rough right and some of the fanciest footwork in the business, was up against a wily, hit & run boxer who attacks in flurries, shifts into a weaving defense designed to make his opponent look like a floundering club fighter. For the first two minutes of Round One Gavilan stuck right to the script, bouncing in to pepper Bratton from his low crouch, bouncing back away again to duck Bratton's right. Then he caught Bratton flush in the face with a jolting right cross, followed it up with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pride of Cuba | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

...night, Colonel Andres Soriano, a tall, imperious gentleman with, a bristling mustache, is a glittering figure at Manila's diplomatic receptions and society soirees. Soriano loves to dance, is frequently seen cutting elegant capers at the Riviera, Manila's fanciest nightclub. By day, Soriano is an industrial tycoon whose multimillion-dollar interests include the Magnolia Dairy, the San Miguel Brewery, and the Philippine Air Lines. He is also a powerful figure behind the government of President Elpidio Quirino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Priest on the Picket Line | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

...Manhattan's big and fancy Waldorf-Astoria Hotel last week, General Motors opened the biggest and fanciest auto show of the new season. On the first day, 50,000 people crowded around the 38 shiny models, gawked at the musical review designed to show 50 years of motor history, were buttonholed by hustling salesmen with the old prewar invitation: "See how it feels behind the wheel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Big Parade | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

...Urban Landscape was contrastingly gloomy, but its gloom was of the pleasantly unreal sort that makes Poe's horror stories entertaining. As might have been expected, there was an atomic-bomb picture-an explosion in a surrealist stew cooked up by Mrs. Annabel Berry of Dallas. The fanciest fantasy in the show was a Captive Amazonian Albino, painted by M. Lewis Croissant, a Missouri engineer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Escape | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

When the time came to hand out the $50,000 first prize, it was won by a simple roll with the fanciest name of all-the "water-rising nut twist." The winner: Mrs. Ralph E. Smafield, 32, wife of a Detroit electrical engineer. The recipe, as expected, was a family treasure, which Mrs. Smafield got from her mother who "got it 25 years ago from a friend in Wisconsin." Pillsbury labeled it top secret, saved it for publication later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUBLICITY: $50,000 Twist | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

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