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Boxing has suffered from the war: four champions have been killed in battle. But last week crowds packed the Palace of Physical Culture to watch a squat, shave-headed slugger named Nikolai Korolev outpoint the Red Army's Ivan Ganykin in four rounds to become "absolute champion of Moscow." Korolev weighed 198 lb., Ganykin 156. Member of the Order of the Red Banner (for his guerrilla fighting behind Nazi lines), Korolev boasts of his letters from Joe Louis...
BILL SMALE and ROGER SHERMAN are splitting hairs over almost nothing these days in their race to grow a moustache by the night of the REGIMENTAL BALL, while MRS. GEORGE KALIONZES blew into town and made GEORGE shave his off. . . . Well, I guess us fellers can't tickle all the gals . . . all the time...
...Since I shave every blessed day," Agustin Lara once remarked, "I have long ago learned from my mirror that my face has no business before a camera. But since people have a morbid curiosity about things that do not concern them, a film on my life-no matter how wretchedly done-would be sure to fill the movie houses...
...dogs and another pony to his famed chimpanzee circus, featured for years in dull-week newsreels. (The chimps ride unicycles, dance the rumba, form a band which plays America, in a way.) He also expanded his performing elephant troupe to five, taught the pachyderms to play baseball (they already "shave" each other, "pass out" in a drinking scene). Vierheller's top act: the fortnightly feeding of two pythons, which have whole ground rabbits stuffed down their gullets. Says Vierheller of zoos in wartime: "People stop worrying when they come...
Flashed from Hollywood were two newsy items: 1) before entering Naval flying school, Robert Taylor will shave off his mustache; 2) Martha Scott likes to cook scrambled eggs with peanut butter...