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Among others, Joe Palooka has survived 34 years as a world heavyweight boxing champion with nary a scar to show for it on his boyish face. Buck Rogers, the spaceman who confronted atom bombs as early as 1939, no longer plies the interplanetary routes. But Flash Gordon still zips through...
Herded Fishermen. What made the festivities unusual is the heritage of bitterness between the two nations. For 35 years Korea was a Japanese colony, and its people either were ruthlessly suppressed as rebels or treated with contempt as second-class citizens. On gaining its independence after the war, Korea adopted...
The Nationals, long dominated by farm-boys from Iowa and cowboys from Oklahoma, this year was a resurgence of Eastern wrestlers. Mike Caruso of Lehigh at 123, Hill Stewart of Lehigh at 137, Bob of Maryland 157, and heavyweight Jim Nancy of Syracuse all won individual titles. , Iowa State nosed...
Half of the marines landed by ship. Scarcely 24 hours after the orders to move came from Washington, a Navy destroyer and four transports hove to in the foam-flecked bay half a mile off Nam O Beach north of Danang, renamed "Red Beach Two" by the marines. A dozen...
Tim Beard of Navy, who placed only third in the individual medley against Harvard in December, edged Yale's Ed Townsend to win the gruelling 400-yard individual in 4:26.9, breaking the old record held by John Pringle of Harvard. In the 500-yard freestyle, defending champion Harrison Merrill...