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...Plymptom squad is knee-deep in danky outfielders. In center, husky, bronzed Juan P. Leapandfall will start if the hone spur on his ailing heel shapes up; Chuckles (XX) Bellylaugh is slated to tend the right garden; and devilish Cocksure will attempt to run the game while patrolling the left pasture...
That made 178-lb. Ezzard Charles, by default, the most probable candidate to fight Joe Louis. But after the fight, Ezz seemed hone too eager to claim his newly won privilege. "My goodness, not yet," he said. "I'd have to be a lot sharper if I fought the champ." Besides, who was he to give his hero the last shove? "He's still the greatest," said Ezz. "I want him to retire undefeated...
...Conservative mayor, tall, thin Jacinto Jijén y Caamano, 57, was making things hum. He had talked President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra into borrowing $4,000,000 in Washington to build the city's first aqueduct since Inca times. Said Mayor Jijén (pronounced "he-hone"): "This summer, for the first time, Quito will have water...
Messrs, Truman, Attlee and King abruptly outdated nearly everything that anybody else had to say about internationalizing The Bomb (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). But, from Teheran to Potsdam, no major communique had turned out to mean all that it seemed to mean; hone of the great promises had been entirely fulfilled. The world debate would...
...doctor told him: "If I had met you . . . five years ago, I could have saved you it all by sending you off on a bout of dissipation-all the great creators of the past were devils. Drink and women have saved many a man from death and madness." (Hone adds, in the book's prettiest footnote: "An Irish doctor...