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...Stolz, a stylish young boxer, was rated the No. 1 challenger for Angott's crown. But the Beau, in his first appearance as a Garden headliner, punched him off his perch. After seven rounds of piston-like pounding reminiscent of Henry Armstrong's famed windmill attack, Stolz's left eye was bleeding so badly that the referee stopped the bout, awarded a technical knockout to the little brown upstart...
...stylish stouts, Sarah's extreme leanness seemed undesirable. Said a wag: "An empty carriage stopped, and Sarah Bernhardt got out." Suddenly Sarah found herself; she began to recite poetry- "as the nightingale sings, as the wind sighs, as water murmurs." At 35 Sarah became European Actress No. 1, and "the divine Sarah...
...Dark-haired, C. (Calvert) Coggeshall claims his Plyline Knock-Down chairs are as comfortable as anything Grandfather lounged in. He has emphasized one branch of functionalism a lot of modern furniture designers forget about: the buyer's pocketbook. More stylish than Cooper's furniture, Designer Coggeshall's is built with handsome but inexpensive fir or birch. Like Cooper's, his chairs and tables easily demount to fit into neat packages. A Coggeshall dining table costs $12.50; coffee table, $3.50; chair, from $2.50 to $5. Coggeshall's proudest achievement: a $3.50 table, cut from a single...
...other U.S. men's activities were so well organized. In Seattle, Leader Gene Mahoney of the Home Defense Infantry Regiment had appointed captains, majors, lieutenants with no advice from the military. In Mound City, Mo., Legionnaires were training with bow & arrow. In Omaha, stylish horsemen set themselves up as "Paul Reveres." In Louisville, Ky., the Legionnaires started to conduct a city-wide registration in competition with local authorities, were...
...studio heated with a rusty kerosene stove. Morris Graves paints birds in a lonely cabin near Campbell Lake in Western Washington. With 16 other U.S. artists, many practically unknown, Painters Bloom and Graves made their first formal appearance in the art world last week, chaperoned by Manhattan's stylish Museum of Modern...