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...prime exception to the rule that boxing champions defend their titles as seldom as possible is 25-year-old Freddie Miller. No. 1 featherweight. A stoop-shouldered left-hander with considerable ability, he has whipped 19 challengers since 1933. Three times he beat Petey Sarron, a tough little Syrian from Birmingham, Ala. who. at 28, is an experienced oldster in the ring...
...outraging Britain last week. No sooner had blackshirt troops under ebullient Fascist Achille Starace touched Lake Tana, vital to Egypt's welfare, than the British Press and Parliament burst into shocked cries over Italy's use of poison gas. Up in the House of Lords stood bald, stoop-shouldered Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, ardent humanitarian and brother of the bearded Bishop of Exeter. In his hand he held a telegram from Haile Selassie's comely kinky-haired 16-year-old daughter, Princess Sehai. "For seven days without a break," she wrote, "the enemy has been bombing...
...noble of Mr. Philips to remind TIME Inc. that it "would be performing a real public service" if it "would refuse to stoop again to such profit-taking." He must have overlooked that very nifty bit of American Legion profit-taking achieved this year over a Presidential veto in Washington. For that superpatriotic boosting of the national debt, the Legion makes all of us, as taxpayers, even greater "suckers...
...misty morning in 1900 on a Cleveland golf course, a stoop-shouldered man of 60, his bald head shining like a knob of burnished marble, smacked drive after drive off a tee. Seven caddies returned the balls, patted down little sand tees, scurried down the course as the man kept poling out drives like an automaton. Suddenly from another part of the fairway came a shrill cry of warning. Without hesitation the man dropped his club, scampered into a clump of nearby bushes. Few minutes later there came another cry. The man returned, resumed his work...
...fact that you have carried two such advertisements in successive issues of FORTUNE, I cannot hope that we will be able to dissuade you from further commercialization of your disabled countrymen. I believe, however, you would be performing a real public service if you would refuse to stoop again to such profit-taking...