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After three days of hearings U. S. Attorney Charles D. McAvoy stepped in, announced he would seek grand jury investigation. Seventeen days after the Sabath Committee arrived in Philadelphia, a jury began its task. On Sept. 18, the first indictments were returned, on Sept. 28 a second batch. But they were not made public and the jury continued...
...from Phoenix, Ariz., who is currently light-heavyweight champion of the world. Lewis' opponent in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden was the first Englishman in the past decade deemed worthy of a chance to win such an important title, a tubby-looking, determined young Lancashireman named Jock McAvoy, billed as middleweight and light-heavyweight champion of the British Empire...
...second U. S. fight three months ago McAvoy distinguished himself by knocking out Middleweight Champion Babe Risko in the first round. Eager to duplicate that achievement, he pounced out of his corner last week when the bell rang for the first round, planted two solid lefts on Lewis' face. Stung but not stunned, Lewis retaliated with a hard right. In the rounds that followed, McAvoy continued to charge his bigger, heavier adversary. Lewis settled down to the strategy of a skillful animal trainer subduing the ferocity of an angry lion cub by poking it in the face with...
...furor over candid camera photographs in the White House began a year ago when, before and during the signing of the Brazilian Trade Agreement, Thomas D. McAvoy unleashed his tiny Leica with specially sensitized film, snapped pictures of the unaware President glancing at letters and orders, puffing out his cheeks, pursing his lips, gulping a drink of water...
...McAvoy should . . . have taken time to have the engineer put the power reverse gear handle in forward motion on the quadrant, instead of reverse, as in its present position, when he pulls the throttle, the engine will reverse, and if he's a good engineer and has his slack ''bunched," he won't move the train...