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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clean knockout for practically everybody connected with it. To get ready for his remarkable fistic performance, Actor Kirk Douglas, 32, trained for a month and a half, six days a week, under the knowing eye of "Mushy" Callahan, onetime world's junior welterweight champion. Until then, the nearest Douglas had ever come to boxing was skipping rope at St. Lawrence University in preparation for a tournament in which he became intercollegiate wrestling champion of the Eastern Division (1938-39)* By the time Mushy finished with him, Douglas was in such good ring training that the double who was hired...
...clerks, sportsmen and the "proletarian districts" all elected their own queens, and crowned them at special fiestas. The press photographers got Cantinflas, Mexico's most popular comedian, to crown their queen (see cut). Moy ran as the army's candidate for queen of all the festivals. Her nearest competitor was sultry, dark-haired Yolanda Ortiz, candidate of the traffic cops (the police department had its own candidate). Almost everyone in Mexico City knew that they were running a close race, but that Moy was ahead...
...distance from the Hygiene Building to the nearest stiff drink will be shortened today when Clark's Sea Grill opens at its new location on Holyoke Street. With everything from fish to partly clothed women for murals, it will cater specially to students...
...Maladresse." When the gabble of 21 electioneering parties had died down, 427,000 voters (including 30,000 Arabs) went to the polls in Israel's first election. Premier David Ben-Gurion's Mapai (Labor Party) polled 35% of the vote, more than double the total of its nearest competitor. Closely bunched were the left-wing United Workers, which want alignment with Russia; the United Religious Front, which wants a state conforming to the Talmud; and the ultranationalist Freedom Movement, which wants a conquest of Palestine and Transjordan before peace is made with the Arabs. The Communists...
...President Gilbert Henderson, Neumiller is a surprisingly mild-looking, soft-spoken man-a moderator more than a boss. As his friend Author Upson puts it, Neumiller "just sort of grew up with the company." He started at 19, as an engineering clerk ("I always tried to get the desk nearest the boss's door"), worked up through drafting-room superintendent, parts manager, service manager, sales executive, and, after a bitter strike in 1937, became industrial relations director...