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...middleweight final, between French Sailor Marcel Cerdan and Technical Sergeant Ralph Burnley of Philadelphia, a Negro, stole last week's" show. Both were pros before they went into the service. The Negro, who is crew chief of a P-51 fighter group, ploughed into the Frenchman with abandon, took Round One. Cerdan's right scored three skull-jarring hits in Round Two, floored the Philadelphian three times for a count of nine. Cerdan took the title on a technical K.O. at the bell...
...Green Bay Packers backed into the Western division championship last week; Philadelphia's Eagles, the long-suffering pushover of the pros, at last seemed headed for the Eastern title-after standing off Washington's air-minded Redskins and New York's down-to-earth Giants. These were the four pro teams of the year...
...Pros Speak. Also last week the presidents of the five largest U.S. engineering societies,* representing 70,000 professional engineers, put forth their own plan to strip Germany of its war-making powers but yet keep sound its civilian economy, so important to Middle Europe...
...would vote for his renomination if I were a delegate. ... At the same time, I do not wish to appear in any way as dictating to the convention. Obviously the convention must do the deciding. And it should-and I am sure it will-give great consideration to the pros & cons of its choice...
...pros & cons Jimmy Byrnes seemed to have the most pros, if he really wanted the nomination. Most of the party could agree on him, except for his one political handicap-he is no longer a member of the Catholic Church into which he was born. No one could guess how the all-important Catholic vote would regard this. A fight was clearly developing which even a clear indication of Presidential preference might not settle...