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Coal & Chicks. If there was, tough old John C. Kehoe wasn't saying. Son of a coal miner, he picked slate in Pennsylvania's hard-coal country for 45^ a day. As a boy, instead of shooting marbles, he was fighting game chicks-against other kids in Pittston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fighting the Cocks | 3/8/1948 | See Source »

Born. To Rocky Graziano, 25, hammer-fisted hoodlum of boxing, world's middle weight champion (barred from most boxing rings), and Norma Levine Graziano, 22: their second child, second daughter; in Brooklyn, N.Y. Name: Roxee Lynn. Weight: 6 lbs. 15 oz.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 1, 1948 | 3/1/1948 | See Source »

Sacred Dance. On interim aid, New York's hot-tempered John Taber, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, caused a gnashing of teeth, even among his fellow Republicans. To go with a $597 million authorization, John Taber brought out an appropriation bill providing actual cash of only $509 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Exit Gyrating | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

In the match between blond, ambidextrous Jack Bromwich and Ted Schroeder, it was again an all-court player with a "big service" and smashing net game against a baseline hugger. The match was exciting but sloppy. Schroeder's game lacks the finality of Kramer's, and last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Cup Stays Here | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

Fullback in the Pulpit. His leadership of Christian Endeavor and his editorship of the influential lay religious magazine, the Christian Herald (circ. 390,000), make big Baptist Dan Poling a potent figure in U.S. Protestantism. He throws most of his weight into two-fisted action, rather than into theological ideas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Dynamo of Good Will | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

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