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...Battler, "and I know you'd do it again if you were in power." Labor cheered wildly. "I have a clear card in my union; I want this Act off the statute books so that we have a clear card before the law." Then Ernie swung his knockout to the Tory solar plexus. "We Socialists are here. . . in power and we are going to stop here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: After 20 Years | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

Boxing's biggest current attraction is a roughneck middleweight from Manhattan's tough Mulberry Street. Rocco ("Rocky") Graziano packed them in at Madison Square Garden last week for what fans thought would be his sixth straight knockout, a new Garden record. He fooled himself and the fans by winning on points from ex-Sailor Sonny Home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Making of Rocky | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

...before last week's fight, the largest crowd since Primo Camera's day paid 35? apiece to watch Rocky prep for his go against Horne. At the Garden, 18,907 paid $108,974 to watch Rocky throw everything in the book at Boxer Horne, almost get his knockout in round 7. At the finish, a few fans booed. Said Rocky: "I win, didn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Making of Rocky | 1/28/1946 | See Source »

...bore a somewhat overblown reputation as a "stonewall" defender in Italy. To Allied minds who know the Nazi mind best it appeared likely that Kesselring was chosen not primarily for his generalship, but as the commander who might best-from the Nazi point of view-take the Allied knockout punch or throw in the towel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nazis' New Broom? | 4/2/1945 | See Source »

...Germany. No G.M. official has any authentic information about the damage done to Opel when the R.A.F. heavily bombed the plant twice last summer. But the obvious conclusion was that the damage reports by bomber pilots satisfied the economic warfare experts in London who had Opel marked for a knockout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN TRADE: By Bomb & Shell | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

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