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Over the back bar in the saloon run by Antonio Michelangelo Leonardo da Vinci Galento in Orange, N. J. there hangs a sign saying: JOE LOUIS IS A BUM. Two-ton Tony Galento-a lumpy, hog-fat heavyweight who won a sort of succès d'estime last year by bowling over fever-racked Nathan Mann faster than Joe Louis did-has been snarling defiance at Louis ever since scheming Fight Manager Joe Jacobs took him over three years ago. For the seven years before that, Tony Galento, who trains on beer and does his road work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Beers and Bums | 3/13/1939 | See Source »

...Ground Hog (Fri. 12:30 p. m. NBC-Blue) has his annual coming-out party reviewed and interpreted by Howard Zahniser, U. S. Bureau of Biological Survey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Programs Previewed: Feb. 6, 1939 | 2/6/1939 | See Source »

...goer never hears in a hundred visits but also such familiar noises as the rhythmic bleating of sea lions, broken by short, harsh, discordant barks, which sound like a few bars from Ravel's Valse. More sophisticated listeners preferred the grotesque beauty of the West African red river hog's grunt, the resonant, whuffing snort of the white-tailed gnu, the whistling whinny of the panda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Animal Language | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...print -except on the soon-quashed indictment whose 49 counts last September charged him with misdoings in office. He has even had his name blazoned on the city's trash baskets. In 1936 he began spending $7.000,000 of city and WPA money for an airport at Hog Island in the Delaware River marshes southwest of town-a field to be named S. Davis Wilson Airport...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Powder Keg Airport | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...there the barking dog is muzzled; for without a center or paid manager to organize teams, practices, and games the dormitories are helpless. Yet now that their right to belong in the intra-mural system has been recognized, it should be possible to go the whole hog and give them a center--(a bulletin board in the Athletic Building would suffice)--manager, and permission to participate in other House sports. And governed by the existing rules, which forbid men on probation to play on winning House teams against Yale, there would not exist the disparity of strength manifested...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUTSIDE THE GATES | 12/10/1938 | See Source »

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