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...Manhattan's sleazy Stillman's Gym, where he trained, a place full of the smell of dust, sweat and arnica, characters paid 50? to get in and crowd around. When Rocky, the biggest crowd-puller outside of Joe Louis, swigged water between rounds and aimed a spout at a funnel in the corner of the ring, they didn't mind being splashed. When Rocky elbowed his way through the mob to work on the small punching bag, the hangers-on tried to borrow five or ten, or find out "How's ya condition." Rocky liked...
Last week, Rocky was deep in trouble for failing to report a $100,000 bribe offer (TIME, Feb. 3). At Stillman's Gym, the boys were .whispering about him. Said one: "I say he shouldn't get it ... he done right dint he ... he nixes the guy, don't he?" Said another: "He goes ... I say he gets it." The man in the street didn't want to see Rocky "get it" too hard. Rocky had turned down the bribe, even if he hadn't reported it (though he had reportedly feigned a sore back...
Jacob, called in at the last moment to replace Samuel E. Stuart, 2nd, '46, who is confined at Stillman Infirmary, and Detlev F. Vagts '49 upheld the affirmative side of the topic, "Resolved, That labor should have a direct share in the management of industry." Arguing against the Crimson duo were Frank Scanlon and Alfred Mongin from the Philadelphia college...
With University enrollment swelled to twice its pre-war size, the sick lists from Stillman might be expected to show a parallel increase. But figures released by Dr. Arlie V. Rock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygienen, show that the number of sicknesses have reached an all-time low. Less than one-third of the normal number of patients have been taken in during the first half of the College year...
Evidence of the small quota of winter sicknesses are the Stillman lists, Professor Bock claimed, which show, on a typical day only 17 men at the Infirmary, five in hospitals, and 11 resting at home, and which show few of the usual respiratory diseases...