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...minutes and two seconds 215 pounds of Negro Harry Wills laced, slashed and uppercutted at 203 pounds of White Floyd Johnson, lowan fisticuffer. Then Johnson's seconds flirted a white towel-tossed it onto the canvas lest the "Brown Panther" should massacre their lowite. Ten thousand fight fans trooped out of Newark Armory (N. J.) after having seen exactly what they had expected-one of the most savage fights ever witnessed in the East. Pugilist Wills swelled out his chest of rippled ebony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Massacre | 11/2/1925 | See Source »

...Madison Square Garden, Manhattan, Quentin Romero, 196 pound pugilistic champ of Chile, fell before the bruising, battering attack of Floyd Johnson, 199 pound lowan. Romero, his face a bloody smear, fell in the seventh round, .lay prone while the timer tailed off: ten seconds. Whether he was really "out" or whether he could not understand the Anglo-Saxon numerals as shouted by the referee are questions which were afterwards debated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Romero's Debut | 5/19/1924 | See Source »

...President and started for home. He had just reached there when Judge Kenyon of Iowa arrived in Washington, also on a summons. Judge Kenyon had all the qualifications: A judge, well known (as a former Senator), a progressive (the pet candidate for President of Senator Smith Wildman Brookhart, insurgent lowan). Judge Kenyon was offered the place. He took a day to consider, conferring with his erstwhile companions in the Senate. He said next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Secretary Wilbur | 3/24/1924 | See Source »

...producers of auricular cauliflowers opened another mill last week. When it closed down for the night, Jack Renault, French Canadian heavyweight, had knocked out Floyd Johnson, lowan. Fifteen rounds were required for the operation. The 15 sealed forever Johnson's claims to the heavyweight championship; but they showed him to be one of the most unflinching fighters that ever wore a glove; he will always be somebody's sparring partner. Renault showed considerable skill but no vestige (in either hand) of the crushing cannon ball which alone can dent the Dempsey crown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Johnson Out | 11/12/1923 | See Source »

...College of Commerce will manage business affairs. It will be published from its own plant, equipped with three linotype machines and a press that will print " from the roll " and turn out folded and complete 6,000 papers an hour. Besides general news, cartoons and " cuts" or pictures, the lowan will have a Society column...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Who Reads? | 9/24/1923 | See Source »

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