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...expert and historian is no boxer himself. He fought his last fight at the age of 14 in a Boys' Club exhibition and was knocked out in the first round. He has revered the ring ever since. As boxing writer and sports editor on the old New York Press and on Munsey papers, and since 1922 as editor of Ring, he has seen 10,000 fights, picked up first-hand lore and lies from every personality of the ring, and traveled 150,000 miles, including 13 trips to Europe for boxing news...
...though with the one who heard, first-hand, from a reliable party, that 10,000 word seminars are to be written for each course in lieu of final exams. There seems to be one in every Army, doesn't there...
Incidental intelligence gleaned from BBC's survey of U.S. listeners: > 51 of 205 surveyed in Salina, Kans. listen regularly to BBC, like its war shows because they give "better first-hand information than U.S. broadcasts." Some objected to BBC because of the "speech...
...impractical theorist, Friedrich's faith in the common man as the "world citizen of Pan-humanity" comes from first-hand experiences with his fellow citizens. Following the post war inflation, he worked in the coal mines of Holland...
Boston-born Teddy White first landed in Chungking on a $1,500 traveling scholarship right after he graduated summa cum laude from Harvard. There he had sold newspapers to keep himself in shirts, had tooted a trumpet to keep himself in spirits. More important, he had learned to speak Chinese-and as soon as he reached China he put this knowledge to use working for the Gissimo's government. John Hersey found him in Chungking in 1939, was so impressed by his news sense and his eagerness to get the facts first-hand that he signed...