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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them"). Apparently, sweet, slurred stuff is just as acceptable to him as hot jazz. His favorite "listening band" for years has been Guy Lombardo's-and Louis doesn't care how many jazz pedants faint when they hear it; "Guy Lombardo advertises the 'sweetest music this side of heaven' and that's what he plays...
Success had had its bitter side for little Willie Pep. As fancy a featherweight as ever tied on gloves, he won so many fights (134 against one defeat) that home-town Hartford, Conn, took him for granted. Willie grew cocky and careless. Result: last October he was knocked out cold by Challenger Sandy Saddler. Willie lost his featherweight crown, but in defeat Hartford began to rally round him and he became a town hero on a comeback trail. The home folks bellowed for a return engagement...
...almost every game, someone tried to bring off the difficult "boast shot". It called for the geometric precision of a three-cushion billiard shot, the ball caroming sharply from one side wall to the other and dropping dead off the front one. Properly executed, it is one of the most difficult shots in squash racquets to return. (An impossible shot to return: a "nick," which hits at the floor-line of one of the side or back walls and rolls out with no bounce...
...most conservative newspaper. Said the friend: "I remember the first time I saw you. You were sitting on the tailgate of a Star truck." Sam Kauffmann, grandson and namesake of the Star's first president, had started at the bottom 28 years ago to learn the business side of the business...
...Francisco earthquake of 1906, he was first informed that the factory was "undoubtedly destroyed." Instead, the factory was "miraculously saved." After that, the Kerrs never doubted that God was on their side. When the two-piece lid (invented in their kitchen in 1915) boosted their business, Kerr gratefully took to putting tithing leaflets in every case of jars...