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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...
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...
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
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.
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...