Word: round
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...round out the job, George Allen also recommended that the President appoint lanky, hard-working John Duncan Goodloe III, RFC's general counsel, and one of RFC's top hands, as his successor. A Harvard law graduate and a veteran of 15 years in Government, Goodloe had topped his RFC career by drafting the Corporation's reorganization bill. That job was enough to convince George Allen that Goodloe should be his successor. And an Allen recommendation was still gilt-edge with Harry Truman; Goodloe...
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...waiting, Sugar Ray had only to beat fellow Negro Tommy Bell to get the title. Sugar Ray's good friend Joe Louis dropped into his dressing room in Madison Square Garden with some advice: "You got to pace yourself, because you can get awful tired in 15 rounds." A few minutes later, 15,670 fans saw Sugar Ray Robinson, a 5-to-1 favorite, knocked to the floor in the second round...
Last week band managers waltzed round Bill Karzas more furiously than ever. Cracked one: "Everybody in the business is making love to the guy." Reason: Bill Karzas, branching out of Chicago for the first time, had just plunked down $1,500,000 to buy three more Midwest ballrooms† hoped soon to have a chain from coast to coast...
People in & around New York's Rensselaer County know Granville Hicks as that nosey writing feller who lives on a farm (without farming it) over to Grafton township (pop. 627). Onetime college professor and repentant Communist, Hicks, 45, has been a year-round resident of Grafton .since 1935, and would probably deny that he sticks his nose into anything. But he notes with satisfaction that he, an "intellectual," belongs to the P.T.A. and the volunteer fire department, that he is secretary of the fire district, director of the Community League, editor of the town bulletin, and trustee of School...