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...Marine Barney Ross, 33, onetime world's lightweight and welterweight champion who recently racked up ten Japs at Guadalcanal: a boxing match against a native heavyweight champion of Samoa; by a knockout in the sixth round after flooring the 215-pounder eleven times; in Samoa. For a prize, the local chief offered Barney his daughter. Barney declined...
...Beau, in his first appearance as a Garden headliner, punched him off his perch. After seven rounds of piston-like pounding reminiscent of Henry Armstrong's famed windmill attack, Stolz's left eye was bleeding so badly that the referee stopped the bout, awarded a technical knockout to the little brown upstart...
...well as in force and frequency. The Bremen raid involved perhaps 400 to 500 planes. The force which plastered Düsseldorf and its great steel works was closer to the 1,000-plane figure than any which had hit the Continent since June 1, when Cologne took a knockout blow...
...Lawrence of Arabia laid the foundations for modern guerrilla technique and theory by demonstrating that a small force could wage a war of attrition on a superior force by keeping the enemy diversified and under constant attack. General Mikhaile....h has proved that guerrillas can also deal a simultaneous knockout blow, while the Chinese have developed fine intelligence techniques...
...Plus. Tallied by U.S. forces in that time were three Jap destroyers and one transport sunk; four cruisers, three destroyers, a gunboat and another transport damaged; seven enemy aircraft, possibly several others, destroyed. Any Japanese plan for a swift knockout blow to the main U.S. naval base in Alaska had been thwarted. But though Alaska stood firm, it was at a price...