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...Gino Verdinelli, winner of the national welterweight tournament held in Rome in 1940. The other was Giovanni Manca, 1941 welterweight champion of the Italian Empire. For a purse, Italian officers had contributed ?100 (around $400) from their prison earnings. For a referee they chose a South African: popular, pint-sized Captain T. St. John Dean...
Good news for the guys who gave a pint of blood rather than go swimming this week. (Dick Custer fells me it's a lot more fun). As soon as the "ground is dry," we're going to have a complete sports program. So that every man can include in the sport of his own choosing "Momma, mail my riding boots and tennis vacquet. I'm going rowing on the Charles!" ... Athletic gear will be here in short order, so get ready to sign some more charge slips...
Privation in the Northwest. In Oregon, liquor rationing reduced every citizen's weekly consumption to a pint of gin, two quarts of whiskey and one and one-fifth gallons of rum or brandy...
Married. Prince Franz Josef II, 36, ruler of the half-pint-sized (65 sq. mi.) peaceful Principality of Liechtenstein, between onetime Austria and Switzerland; and Countess Gina Wilczek, 21, granddaughter of the late Viennese Count Hans Wilczek; in Vaduz, Liechtenstein...
Dunstedter's prize catch for the group is swarthy, pint-sized Private Woodrow Wilson Rich (famed boy-prodigy violinist Ruggiero Ricci)* and his cellist brother George Washington Rich. Wood Wilson Rich (who has developed a soldierly liking for hot dogs) sits in the middle of the second row of violinists, fiddles such Santa Ana numbers as Jive Bomber on his $3,000 Lorenzo Storione violin...