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Even before the kickoff in the National Football League championship this week, a driving storm had blanketed Philadelphia's Shibe Park. Gridiron markings were blotted out under four inches of snow. But television, radio and newsreel companies had paid $33,000 for rights to the game, and a postponement...
I have proof that someone wants to kill me"), the seconds agreed on a small theater attached to the Church of St. Eulalia. They also agreed that besides the seconds and the referee only 40 carefully screened persons (20 Christians and 20 Communists) would be allowed to attend. The Cagliari...
The referee disqualified Savold for fouling and declared Woodcock the winner. Wrote a London Daily Express reporter: "It was certainly a moral win for the American. And don't accuse me of being anti-British. For most of the 10,500 fans who booed Woodcock from the ring after...
Four nights later, a brawler from Pennsylvania's coal mines got his big chance in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Joe Baksi had shed a lot of blubber (from 257 Ibs. down to 210½), but he was still 32½ pounds heavier than his Negro opponent, Ezzard...
Ike Was Boss. Not the least of these controversies involved Eisenhower's own role as the Supreme Commander, Allied Expeditionary Forces. Those who have thought of him as primarily a placator or referee of jealous, bickering commanders, a benevolent military chairman of the board, will have to revise their...