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...agree with your cinema critic that She is a very mediocre spectacle. But evidently the poor dear could not sit through the picture without an occasional cat nap...
...Training for his bout with Carnera, he fought 75 rounds against six sparring partners, knocked each of them out at least twice with oversized training gloves. Salient feature of Joe Louis' character is his almost psychopathic calm. He sleeps twelve hours every night, often takes a day-time nap as well. He talks rarely and in monosyllables. When he arrived in Manhattan, he was greeted by an army of reporters to whom he gave a characteristic opinion of New York: "Don't see anything unusual about anything here, looks about the same as Detroit or Chicago." He likes...
Federal agents, who queried George after he had returned home and had a nap, were not disposed to accept the Karpis theory, pointed out that Karpis is known to intimates as Ray, not Alvin. It was suggested that a local gang had borrowed Karpis' name to mislead police. Whoever had done the $200,000 job was still free as the week ended...
...Indianapolis, Carol Douglas, 24, told police: "I came back from work at noon and my lunch wasn't ready. I took a few drinks and then took a short nap. When I awakened, my father-in-law asked me to shoot his pet dog which had been acting queerly. I got my gun and we went to the garage where I killed...
...game for the Cardinals, he was sent to Houston for a year of seasoning, rejoined the team in 1932. For the last three years he has led the National League in strikeouts. In 1933, he broke a record held jointly by Frank Hahn, Christy Mathewson, Rube Waddell and Nap Rucker by striking out 17 batters in one game. His 30 victories last season made him the National League's first 30-game winner since...