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Last week, on We, the People, Sanka Coffee's Tuesday-night odditorium of the air, Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis and his freak-style opponent of last fortnight, Arturo Godoy from Chile, faced each other anew. Joe said fighting Godoy had been just like "sittin' in a big easy chair, restin'." Arturo boasted that after "the fight he still had enough left to step-'but with his wife and "just go do little rumba." Back home, said Godoy to Joe and his radio audience (about 7,000,000), he had big brothers, "good fighters...
...Note--The Crimson does not necessarily endorese opinions expressed in printed communications. No attention will be paid to anonymous letters and only under special conditions, at the request of the writer, will names be withheld. Only letters under 400 words can be printed because of space limitations.) jest a sittin' aint got no Kalendar...
Cummon now, howja know he's a Harvard? she insisted. Well, you really wanna know, huh? he said. I tell ya then. See this car? Every seat in it is taken, ain't it? Everybody's sittin that's got a place to sit. But there's still one vacant seat left--the one next to HIM. That means he's a Harvard for sure...
...Governor the idea of spicing up his speeches with songs by the Yacht Club Boys, Rubinoffs fiddling. Before long Dick Powell wins the party nomination, campaigns successfully with speeches guaranteed not to last more than 30 seconds and with such songs as Thanks a Million, I'm Sittin' High on a Hilltop, I've Got a Pocket Full of Sunshine...
...does for The Kingfish, Brother Crawford and Lightnin'). Testified Mme Queen: ''The second time Andy was in there, he said to me, he said: 'Sweetheart, this is one of the best manicures I ever had.' . . . One night we had a date, and we was sittin' on the sofa, and he sez to me: 'Kiss me, honey,' and I say: 'You go 'way from here 'cause I ain't gonna kiss no man.' ... He got down on one knee and begged me to marry him. That...