Word: peps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paepcke's Packages. Chief credit for Container's collection went to its sleek president, Walter Paul Paepcke (pronounced Pep-key), 48. Handsome, greying Elizabeth ("Pussy") Paepcke, his wife, rated an assist; an amateur painter and enthusiastic collector (of Picasso, Leger, Degas), she got her sales-minded husband interested in art. By 1937, he was so thoroughly sold that he not only had Container's products designed in streamlined shapes, but decided to advertise them-something unheard of in the paperboard industry...
...U.S.A significant part of the credit for better U.S.-Chinese relations was given to shrewd, big-hearted Major General Patrick J. Hurley, now Ambassador to China. Last week he was in Washington, making his last rounds on U.S.-Chinese business before returning to Chungking, and from his pep talks it seemed clear that the U.S. had made up its mind to give genuine support to the Generalissimo's Government. The Generalissimo, in turn, had heartened his American friends with a quiet profession: "If I die a dictator, I shall go down to oblivion as all other dictators have gone...
...Pep's championship bout drew 10,247 customers. Four nights later, Welterweight Walker ("Sugar Ray Robinson") Smith (148½ lbs.) proved that punches speak louder than titles. A crowd of 18,060 jam-packed Madison Square Garden to see chocolate-colored Sugar Ray knock the block off game Middleweight Jake La Motta...
...boys who got this straight talk from New York's new Boxing Administrator Eddie Eagan (TIME, Jan. 22) was the world's featherweight champion, Willie Pep. A master boxer with a featherweight punch, he had been dubbed "BackPedaling Bill" by the fans. But in last week's 15-round championship battle with Bronx Phil Terranova, Hartford's nimble 124-lb. Willie put on the fighting-est show of his career...
...academic standards were high, his squads correspondingly small, onetime Mathematics Professor William Anderson Alexander devised an intricate type of play that few but his apt engineers could have mastered. Ruddy-faced Coach Alex carried his chalk and blackboard to the half-time dressing rooms, substituted diagraming for tear-jerking pep talks. He said rousing up the boys produced mental instability...