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...Thunder from the Right. Boxing has been Hugh Benbow's love ever since he left home at 15 with $50 pinned to his underwear. Forty fights later, Lightweight Benbow quit the ring to become a businessman, but his affection for the sport remained. He made one fortune in costume jewelry, lost it in the 1946 market crash, made another in Texas oil. Now 63, Benbow is back in boxing as manager and father confessor to Cleveland ("Big Cat") Williams, 33, who on Nov. 14 in Houston will fight Cassius Clay for the heavyweight championship of the world...
...David John Evans, a maintenance man with a local colliery, climbed to the top of the waste heap to look into reports that the gigantic mass was moving. With a shock, Evans discovered that it was. "Suddenly I saw the heap shifting," he recalled later. "The movement was like thunder. I could hear trees on each side being crushed to matchwood...
More of the same can be expected for the daily, which has lost a lot of its old thunder, although circulation has increased 10% in the five months since it began putting news instead of agony ads on Page One. Hamilton plans to "crossbreed" his daily and Sunday staffs into a seven-day operation. The Times, he says, "needs a vast amount of money so we can increase coverage. It needs more pages and more correspondents, and that is what it will...
Truman's words fell like thunder claps on banks and stock markets from Wall Street to Tokyo, but their impact was most pronounced in Washington-particularly on the man in the White House. Lyndon Johnson is something of a Populist who agrees with Truman that money should be easier. But-as with so many other things lately-he has done nothing to offset the rising rates except talk about them. Truman's prodding stung him sharply. "I, too, am concerned about the interest-rate rise and what it means to many Americans," protested the President, but he denied...
...classic line: "Backward ran sentences until reeled the mind." Our sentences no longer run backward (or hardly ever), but the spoofs continue. More recently, The New Yorker commented on our occasional tendency to use active, colorful verbs, and claimed that people in our pages always "groan, coo, snarl, taunt, thunder, chortle, crack, intone, growl, drawl," etc. The same article suggested that the reason for TIME'S liveliness can be found in the masthead, which lists dozens of female researchers whose "pulse-quickening" presence "peps up TIME'S denizens." TIME'S masthead also fascinated Playwright William Saroyan...