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Battered, canny little Willie Pep, one of the shiftiest boxers in ring history and featherweight champion (except for three months) through the past eight years, figured that at the advanced fighting age of 28 he had learned all the tricks of his trade. A fast man on his feet and a fairly sharp puncher, he could also wrestle, gouge and butt with the best of them. Last week, nonetheless, Harlem's 24-year-old Sandy Saddler taught Willie a few new holds...
...view the fighting in Korea today as a direct failure of this nation to project the idea of democracy in the world," said he. The Voice is nothing but a "hoarse whisper," and U.S. propaganda little better than "schoolboy essays." "Gentlemen, we would never think of matching a Willie Pep, good as he is, against a Joe Louis in a ring fight in this country; but that is what we did in our propaganda fight with Russia...
...week and being yearned over by millions of fans, was an unhappy girl. She believed that she was ill-favored, unloved, and persecuted by her movie bosses (M-G-M). She was jittery after years of "bolts & jolts" (sleeping pills to calm you down, Benzedrine to pep you up). Last week, when Judy learned that her studio had suspended her again for repeated failure to show up for work, she locked herself in the bathroom, broke a water glass and scratched herself on the neck with the ragged edge. The Los Angeles Mirror headlined JUDY GARLAND CUTS THROAT...
...Pep & Strength. Last fall LeBlanc was selling only 150,000 bottles of Hadacol a month when the advertising began to take. Then there was a sudden shortage. Result: a black market in which Hadaco was bootlegged at $2 or more for the $1.25 bottle. After that the medicine enjoyed such a boom that last month around 2,000,000 bottles were sold...
Taking care not to arouse the Food & Drug Administration or the Federal Trade Commission, which have their own views about cure-all nostrums, LeBlanc merely describes Hadacol on the box as a "Dietary Supplement . . . formulated as an Aid to Nature in rebuilding the Pep, Strength and Energy of Buoyant Health when the System is deficient in the Vitamins and Minerals found in this Tonic . . ."In short: if its what you need, it's what you need. Besides which, the almost one ounce of ethyl alcohol in each bottle (about as much as comes in a double martini) gives...