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From the opening bell, young Zivic went after Armstrong's weak spots: his eyes and mouth, puckered with old scar tissue. By the tenth round, the champ was a bleeding blind man. While he stumbled and groped, mumbling "If I could only see-" Zivic slashed him with savage rights and lefts. Through five of the most brutal rounds ever seen in the Garden, Armstrong took his bloody punishment. In the 15th, more from a shove than a wallop, he toppled to the floor-just saved from a knockout by the final bell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: In the Fifteenth Round | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

With Prohibition came the era of "The Big Shots." The Capone enterprises, which grossed $100,000,000 yearly, were organized by Johnny Torrio, whose fame has been unjustly eclipsed by his scar-faced successor. Says Asbury: "Johnny Torrio is unsurpassed in the annals of American crime; he was probably the nearest thing to a real mastermind that this country has yet produced." Torrio boasted, "I own the police," had uniformed officers guard his costlier liquor shipments. In five years of gang warfare 500 mobsters were assassinated. Sniffed Mayor Big Bill Thompson, "It's all newspaper talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Down the Cesspool | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

Surgical correction of bosom sag involves lifting the breast, reattaching it firmly to the pectoral muscle by means of absorbable sutures, transplanting the nipple and areola (pigmented circle) to their esthetically proper site on the new formation. The incision leaves an inconspicuous scar, and since it is made downward from the new nipple site, the breasts are completely unmarked above the nipples. If the breast is "hypertrophic" (over-developed), superfluous tissue is removed in a wedge-shaped segment. If it is "atrophic" (under-developed), an uplifting and reshaping job alone often restores a satisfactory contour; if not, fatty tissue lifted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Plastic Surgery | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

...sings neither well nor ill. Let specialists define her talent. The important thing is that she sings as a torch burns. She is alternately the geranium of the suburbs, the scar of crime, the lantern of the brothel and the whistle of the police. "Cocteau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Diseuse | 6/17/1940 | See Source »

...authorities were notified. Alarm sirens wailed. All over the city frantic Chinese hurried out in the open, crying "Chin pao! Chin pao!" ("The alarm! The alarm!"). In the downtown areas, where shopkeepers had built wooden stalls over the ruins from last May; up on the hill, where the livid scar of a huge incendiary-bomb fire had been covered with a town of mat sheds; across the Yangtze River, where the U. S. Embassy stands-all through the city, the natives milled, and watched for the planes in terror. Only one in four reached a bomb shelter. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR IN CHINA: Chungking Bombings | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

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