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Eventually the weights went out of fashion until, before World War I, a tiny, tireless old British lady named Mrs. Applewhaite-Abbott began to collect them. By the time she died in 1938, she owned more than 450, and not one had cost her more than $125. Just before World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Treasures in Trunks? | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

Fewer Phonies. In California, Joe is a member of the State Athletic Commission, president of the Pony Baseball Leagues (for boys from 12 to 15), and the donor of a sports trophy room to U.C.L.A. containing such mementos as Babe Ruth's bat and the trunks Gene Tunney wore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Sporting Life | 4/27/1953 | See Source »

In Lowell, Mass., Rightweight Neil King, making his boxing debut, hopped nimbly into the ring, tossed off his robe, discovered he had forgotten his trunks made a faster exit than he had counted on. --TIME Magazine

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TIME SPROUTS HORNS | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

Premiére. In Lowell, Mass., Lightweight Neil King, making his boxing debut, hopped nimbly into the ring, tossed off his robe, discovered he had forgotten his trunks.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 9, 1953 | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

Except for a minor heart murmur, there was only one thing wrong with the Brodie twins from Moline: they were "Siamese," joined at the tops of their skulls, with their trunks, arms and legs pointing in opposite directions. Their mother, Mrs. Royt Brodie, wife of a farmer who works winters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Two Brains, One Vein | 12/29/1952 | See Source »

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