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Up from Letters. Fortunately for fight fans (and readers) Henry has not yet found a publisher for his book. One night a year ago, while Henry watched a fight in California, a friend suggested that he try fighting again. Armstrong, then a roly-poly 165 lb., scoffed: "A fat man...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Gaudy Touch | 4/12/1943 | See Source »

-Because "Frisco" is a contraction abhorrent to all San Franciscans, roly-poly Mayor Angelo Rossi sped to Hollywood to take issue with 20th Century-Fox, about to release a picture called Hello, Frisco, Hello. Upshot: the mayor got a hundred feet of prelude film in which to express his disapproval...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Society Note | 3/15/1943 | See Source »

"I spent considerable time trying to discover the reason for the enemy's fanatical refusal to surrender, even when the individual's position is entirely hopeless," said CBS's roly-poly Correspondent William J. Dunn Jr. "Undoubtedly religious teachings about the glories of dying in battle provide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Snake on the Beach | 12/21/1942 | See Source »

At Rollins, where he scandalized folks by going swimming in white trunks, and at Black Mountain, where he used to take long walks in the woods with an escort of five dogs, roly-poly Professor Rice cut a slightly comic figure. But there was nothing comic about his mind. A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Brilliant Critic | 11/23/1942 | See Source »

Died. Harold Keates Hales, 74, eccentric donor of the Hales Blue Riband Trophy for speed crossings by transatlantic liners; by accidental drowning in the Thames; near Shepperton-on-Thames, England. He was a roly-poly little china merchant who saved his money for 40 years in order to have an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 16, 1942 | 11/16/1942 | See Source »

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