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The sad denudement occurred last week when a hundred pairs of rowing trunks and sweat shirts burned in a fire at the Bob Cook boathouse in Derby, Connecticut.
"Yes," said Gus, "it's almost time to hang up the trunks." That was about a month ago, when he was feeling his age. At 33, he was an old man among boxers, even though the sportwriters had just crowned him 1947's Fighter of the Year. Last...
How did Giuseppe feel about his reception? Said he, in the one word of American he learned from G.I.s during the war: "O.K." Born in Sicily, Giuseppe studied for the priesthood until he was 15 and found a girl. ("Until then I thought parents bought children in the market place...
Ditch diggers and bank presidents wore bright-colored Aloha shirts to work; women appeared in gay, ankle-length muu-muus,* modern models of the Mother Hubbards which early missionaries had hung on native Hawaiian girls. A big, bronzed, part-Hawaiian gas company foreman named Charles Kramer acted as Alii, or...
When Abbott Joseph ("Joe") Liebling was six, he read in a New York newspaper that a heavyweight named Carl Morris was the White Hope to lick World Champion Jack Johnson. A couple of days later, a fighter named Jim Flynn licked the trunks off the White Hope. That was in...