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As a boxer, Rocky Graziano is a joke, but he has the top two requisites to ring fame & fortune - a paralyzing punch, an iron jaw. His 155 lbs. ace mounted on a sturdy pair of legs that would never per form fancy ring steps. He mauls in on an opponent...

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

Closest to the mythical four-minute-mile: lean-legged Gunder Hägg's 4:01.4 record (under fire while Sweden decided the controversial issue of Hagg's amateur status).

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Superlatives, 1945 | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

From one-legged, Russian-born Alexander de Seversky (Victory through Air Power) came a declaration intended to be heartening: the atomic bomb is just another bomb.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Good News? | 11/12/1945 | See Source »

Doctors know what to do about the undernourished bodies of European children. What to do about their war-warped personalities is not so simple. Last week UNRRA workers described some 200 stick-legged, spare-ribbed children now housed at Kloster-Indersdorf Monastery north of Dachau. All are under 16 and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Babies Never Smiled | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

The Ercoupe. Easiest to fly of all light planes is Engineering & Research Corp.'s spraddle-legged, twin-tailed Ercoupe (Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace soloed after 7 hrs. 10 min. of instruction in an Ercoupe). With all of its controls operated from a steering wheel, Ercoupe's makers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Boom Is On | 10/29/1945 | See Source »

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