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Grappling for the role of challenger for the world's heavyweight championship were two washed-up fighters: Barkeep Tony Galento, a beer-bibbing ham-&-egger who had never heard of the Marquess of Queensberry, and Madcap Maxie Baer, who had been floundering around in the second division since losing his world's title to Jim Braddock in 1935. Both were over 30, had already been knocked out by Champion Joe Louis...
...Best ham: John Barrymore as the incorrigible ad-libertine in My Dear Children...
...named Virginia O'Brien is surprisingly funny singing torch songs in a monotone, with a completely dead pan. Larry Adler does much better with a harmonica than anyone could possibly expect. And there's a bum (Emmet Kelly) who sits wordlessly on a park bench, removes a ham sandwich from a paper bag, eats it, then lazily brushes his teeth. He provides the one inspired moment of an otherwise uninspired show...
California. A Roosevelt ticket (Governor Culbert Olson) whipped a Garner slate, 7-to-1. Ham-&-Eggs ran a feeble third...
...northern reaches of Norway look like a slim strip of bacon compared to the fat ham Germany got. But within that strip lies potential control of Germany's all-important Swedish iron ore supply. French Alpine troops ("Blue Devils"), sent on up from Namsos, were reported closing in at week's end to complete the half nelson clamped upon that region by the British Navy three weeks prior...