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After a nap, the 212-lb. champion climbed into the ring for a workout. His lethal right hand, the payoff weapon, looked like a lead weight. His left seemed to have lost its old lightning. His legs had thickened at the thighs. Said Joe: "I know I look lousy. . . it's just the way I planned it." He knew that the time to look good was for one hour on the night of June 19, in Yankee Stadium...
...grandpa boss of Memphis (TIME, May 27), said he had received an extortion note, but declared that he was positively not disconcerted. The threatening note ran; "Pay $50,000 or we will kill you or your wife at a certain date. . . . You will be contacted as to where the payoff is to take place and when. Revised Capone, Inc." The extortionists, theorized brave Boss Crump, "know that an election is coming on and are hoping to disconcert me. But it will have no effect...
Frank Salerno, 24, a tall, wavy-haired radio man from Denver, went to Yellowknife last year for a vacation. On a hunch, he staked out 18 claims. The payoff...
...that a U.S. geologist, studying the trackless Montana for a possible railroad, spotted from the air what has since been described as the nearest thing to a perfect geological oil dome. A 2,800-mile supply line up the Amazon, oil diplomacy, and proliferating jungle postponed the payoff till 1939. Then Ganso Azul drilled a well that was a honey: 750 barrels a day. Thenceforth, the problem was not producing but selling...
Just as another fact was becoming apparent-that, as they often did, the Jews were doing their cause considerable damage by their loud and violent outcries-the payoff was delivered by Lionel Sebastian Berk Shapiro, correspondent for the North American Newspaper Alliance. Cabled Shapiro, a Jew, who had been present at the conference...