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Balcony Rescue. When Joe Louis pulled up in front of Harlem's Theresa Hotel after the fight, 10,000 hysterical admirers crowded around his car. They kept him prisoner at the curb for half an hour. Then they tore off the car hood, broke the windows, ripped off the tires, danced on the car roof. It took a balcony speech from Joe to disperse them. Joe didn't mind the damage much; he had earned an estimated $413,000 that night...
Last week, Amparo set out to show her brother, and the public,"what she can do on her own. She picked a bad time and a worse place: Philadelphia's Robin Hood Dell, the night the Republican convention opened. When she finished Liszt's bombastic Piano Concerto No. 1, the 5,000 people in the Dell cheered. The critics cheered too, but less noisily: Amparo had some of her brother's lightning in her fingers, but not enough of his thunder...
...gallows, Brandt was unrepentant. He began a farewell speech. "It is no shame to stand on this scaffold. I served my fatherland as others before me . . ." He was still talking when the black hood dropped over his face...
...TIME'S Yorkshire correspondent is keeping a peeled eye on Robin Hood...
...vicar, who is now pretty sure he knows who Big Baby is, is not dull, but at week's end he had still not named the poison penman of Robin Hood...