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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After four years of fat competitive salaries, the players had less reason to exult. A few days before the merger, Notre Dame's great end, Leon Hart, observed that he would be willing to play professional football for $25,000 a season. At week's end, Arthur McBride...
Any time after the second round of his ten-round exhibition fight with Pat Valentino in Chicago last week, Joe Louis could have knocked his stumbling opponent out. Instead, the retired champion nursed the mop-haired San Franciscan along with blood-drawing lefts until the clock showed 2:45 of...
Champion Charles could have made it even stronger. At 35, for all the quarter-inch of fat that bulged over his purple trunks, Joe Louis still looked like the best heavyweight on two feet. Nursing a scuffed eyelid in his dressing room after the match, he was noncommittal when sport...
Crooning Cowboy Gene Autry makes an estimated $2,000,000 a year from his movies, radio show (Sat. 8 p.m., CBS), commercial enterprises and personal appearances. Last week he happily admitted that he was getting another $500 a week just to stay off TV. As an option on his TV...
Bashed Heads. In a broadside of letters to the stations, with copies to local newspapers and the Federal Communications Commission in Washington, 49-year-old Mrs. Logan temperately asked for the substitution of "acceptable programs which would be suitable for family viewing and listening . . ." FCCommissioner Wayne Coy thanked Mrs. Logan...