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By the end of the twelfth round, Conn's sustained attack had the crowd on its feet, yelling. It was terrific. The fleet-fisted kid had confounded, dumfounded and dazed the greatest champion since Dempsey. On most ringside cards he was leading on points. Louis was obviously worried.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Heartbreaker | 6/30/1941 | See Source »

El-Gailani's answer to the British was to send a concentration of Iraqi troops to the heights threatening Habbania airport, with an ultimatum to the British to cease all operations there. British Ambassador Sir Kinahan Cornwallis, a six-foot-four, big-boned, two-fisted runner, boxer and marksman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEAR EAST: Holy Skirmish | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

William Clark, graduate of the College in 1912 and the Law School in 1915, recently appointed to the Circuit Court of Appeals, and sire of Blair Clark, 1939-40 Crimson president, is the gentleman being back-patted. It seems that Federal Judge Clark has a quaintness-appeal. He is a...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ON THE SHELF | 2/19/1941 | See Source »

Equally busy were the Shuberts in forming an outfit called the "Performing Rights Society of the Theatre, Inc.," which plans to air chunks of the estimated 500 lush musical plays over which the hard-fisted Brothers Shubert exercise "grand rights."*

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Statistics to the Wars | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

Leach condemed those who had faith in our embroyo defense program, our air force still on order, and "the gentleman from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, who calls himself a 'two-fisted isolationist'." Leach had interrogated Verne Marshall on the New England Town Meeting of the Air last week, when the latter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LEACH BLASTS LINDBERGHS, MARSHALL | 1/22/1941 | See Source »

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