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...chances seemed to depend on winning both singles matches against England's stylistic little "Bunny" Austin, the choice which confronted Captain Wear seemed quite likely to decide possession of the Cup. Wood is a tennis genius who, almost unbeatable on his best days, can play like a second-rater on his bad days. Allison is a dependable, aggressive player who, though he loses most of his important matches, always works hard and makes his opponent do likewise. If he chose Allison, Captain Wear might not see his team win the Cup but at least it would be a close...
...Arena just a year ago, Joe Louis received $59. For last week's bout he got $44,600, of which Manager Roxborough and his partner, a Chicago Negro real-estate broker named Julian Black, get one-third. In his first professional fight, Louis knocked out a third-rater named Jack Kracken in the first round. Since then, he has had 21 fights, won 17 of them by knockouts, four by decision. Training for his bout with Carnera, he fought 75 rounds against six sparring partners, knocked each of them out at least twice with oversized training gloves. Salient feature...
Last week Safeway Stores, largest food distributor in Los Angeles and leader of the fight for fair prices, hit upon a scheme to punish the cut-raters. Full-page advertisements appeared in Los Angeles newspapers announcing that Safeway would pay standard prices for butter, bacon, sugar, shortening and a long list of other items which other grocers were offering as "loss leaders." This meant that housewives could buy "loss leaders" at cut-rate stores, walk around the corner and sell them at a profit to Safeway. Merchandise began pouring into Safeway Stores a few minutes after the early editions carrying...
...other actress in the movies today. We say to---with the dramatic critics who claim that the stage is responsible for the geniuses of the movies. As a matter of fact we defy any fool to name any actor or actress on the stage who excels many a second rater in Hollywood...
...defeat by Amberst broke a string of five Crimson victories. Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Syracuse, Bridge rater Normal, Dartmouth, and Northeastern were defeated in the first games the season...