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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boys along Jacob's Beach had never thought much of Joey Maxim as a light heavyweight champion. For 19 months he had refused to risk his title, though he had ventured once into the heavyweight class and taken a tremendous 15-round belting from then-Champion Ezzard Charles. He might be able to box, but he was never a puncher. The boys thought a lot more of Irish Bob Murphy, a redheaded, left-handed brawler who had scored eight knockouts in ten bouts this year. As a 5-to-12 fight-time favorite, Murphy would undoubtedly cut the hapless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Slugger & the Teacher | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: RUSSIA'S TOP AIRCRAFT DESIGNERS | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

Light Heavyweight Championship Fight (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS radio and TV). Joe Maxim v. Bob Murphy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADIO: Program Preview, Aug. 20, 1951 | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

...Rear Admiral Maxim Skriganov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Dangerous Service | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Echoes of a Lost World | 8/6/1951 | See Source »

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