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Married. Bette Davis, 37, starey, brainy cinemactress; and William Grant Sherry, 31, pugilist turned painter; she for the third time, he for the first; in Riverside, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 10, 1945 | 12/10/1945 | See Source »

Page one: Bill Saunders beats up an ex-pugilist bouncer in a pub. Page two: the ex-pug is dead and Bill is chased through the streets of London. Page three: Bill breaks into a room to hide, finds there a pretty salesgirl named Jane, and spends the night with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Thriller | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

Keith has already been taken on a California tour by Henry Armstrong, who says the youngster has "the greatest left I ever saw." Jack Dempsey and Max Baer admire the junior pugilist. Sportswriters who have seen him are enthusiastic. As for Keith himself, he simply proposes to lambaste his way to the championship of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Comer | 4/17/1944 | See Source »

Frank Sinatra,* amateur boxer, bought a $10,000 share in a friend who also makes them swoon: heavyweight Pugilist Tami Mauriello...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Stylists | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

...Sorensen, vice president, and squat, nail-hard Harry Bennett. Sorensen, Danish-born, came to the company in 1904, has heard all the dreams of Henry and Edsel, and translated them into cars off the production line, planes winging from Willow Run. Bennett is no production man. Upon his pugilist's shoulders has rested the Atlantean task of protecting the empire from anything which Henry Ford wants it protected from. Hired to guard the Rouge plant against saboteurs in 1917, he stayed to guard the Ford family from kidnappers and later futilely tried to bar the door against collective bargaining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Death & Taxes | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

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