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...designers. Quiet, scholarly, he set up the first aerodynamics research center in 1918, together with Professor Zhukovsky four years later built his first airplane, a timber and plywood single-engine monoplane. Has turned out 30 major planes from light puddle-jumpers to 1934's lumbering, eight-engine Maxim Gorky (which crashed after a few flights). Exiled during the purges, he came back in 1942 to design attack bombers (TU-2) for the Red air force. Greatest engineering feat: copying the U.S. B29, getting it in limited production within a year. Reportedly working on a Russian turboprop version...
...Rear Admiral Maxim Skriganov...
...What a Pity that Kolya . . ." Such were Bunin's friends. His enemies were Russian writers who preferred a pampered life in the Soviet Union to weedy exile. One such was Maxim Gorky, who "walked lightly, toes first, with a certain slinking gracefulness typical, if I may say so, of thieves...
...Workin' at Our Trade." The victory brought Murphy just what he was looking for: a probable shot at the light-heavyweight (175-lb.) title held by Joey Maxim. The probability also goes to show the tangled state of U.S. boxing. Only four months ago, Seattle's Harry ("Kid") Matthews knocked the stuffing out of Murphy (one judge scored it 8-2). Since then, Matthews has knocked out two heavyweights and last week, far from the glamour of Yankee Stadium, he was knocking out another, Heavyweight (210 Ibs.) Bill Peterson in a Boise, Idaho arena. But Matthews...
After Murphy's victory, I.B.C. Promoter Jim Norris was asked if Matthews was offered a chance at Maxim's crown. The answer: "No." To Matthews' manager, Jack Hurley, who has refused to sign a contract with I.B.C., the answer was expected. "The I.B.C. dictates who fights who and when and where. They're big business. But I'll fight; I'm trying to keep the independents [managers and boxers] in business . . . Better we stay out here, workin' at our trade...