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Writing books on boxing is a habit with Nat Fleischer. The life story of Terry McGovern, who ruled the bantam and featherweight classes in 1899 and 1900 respectively, is his 39th. His previous 38 have sold more than 1,000,000 copies, How to Box and Training for Boxers together sold 200,000 copies. Nat Fleischer's All-Time Ring Record Book is a model of accuracy and completeness...
Stocky Charlie Daggert knows how to use his fists. At 18, during World War I, he punched his way to the featherweight championship of the U.S. Navy. But, as Daggert says, he also has "a bit of Irish wit." Last week Daggert called upon that...
...putting the finishing touches on a plastic trumpet for Army buglers. The Army Quartermaster Corps has ordered 10,000. Plastic trumpets (made of tenite) sound as loudly as brass ones, are truer to pitch because they do not require warming up. The plastic instruments are also easier to blow, featherweight, can be made in any color, require no polishing, can be easily mended. Further, they do not reflect light, hence cannot reveal positions to the enemy. Last week Quartermaster Corps officials looked forward to a plastic age, from trumpets to tubas, in Army bands...
When the critics made up their minds, they had ruled out Roy Harris' "agricultural" Fifth Symphony (TIME, March 8), Aaron Copland's melodramatic Lincoln Portrait, William Schuman's timely but tiresome Prayer-1943, Morton Gould's featherweight Spirituals for String, Choir and Orchestra. The award went to Manhattan-born Paul Creston, 36, for his neat, rather brittle, and relatively old-fashioned First Symphony...
...Trainasium"-a combination obstacle course and outdoor gym-he discovered that one of his rookies was pretty good. The rookie turned out to be Peter Domato Scalzo, recent world's featherweight champion. Before long Private (First Class) Scalzo, put to work as coach and referee, had the whole 311th Regiment dreaming of knockouts...