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Please tell that 10-year-old Annie Gardner who thinks that she is TIME'S youngest reader that she is just a puddin'-head upstart...
...admission. Those who saw Firpo knock Dempsey out of the ring 18 years ago have never forgotten it. Last week, stung with embarrassment at landing on his kinky head, the champion, up at the count of four, came back-a little groggy at first-to blast the young upstart with all he had. In the second round, he gave Baer one of the most terrific poundings ever seen in a prize ring. Baby Baer took it-and in the fifth round brought the crowd to its feet again when he opened a gash over Louis' left...
...Upstart Frank Riggio, with a new plant in Brooklyn and $175,000 in machinery, sold 800,000,000 Regents, a 300% increase over 1939 and enough (even with Regents' high-cost cardboard box) to net him a profit. But George Hill was by now far ahead. His two entries, Tareyton and Pall Mall, blanketed 70% of the new market...
...picture, So Ends Our Night, that made producers hold their breath with suspense. Most expert piece of propaganda that has come from Hollywood so far, it may be the end of one anti-Nazi cycle or the beginning of another. So Ends Our Night is the work of an upstart team of independent producers: David Loew, onetime vice president of Loew's Inc., the theatre chain his father Marcus Loew founded, and Harvardman Albert Lewin, onetime instructor in English at the University of Missouri. Lewin was associate producer (with the late Irving Thalberg) of such M. G. M. hits...
...Dallas, the Cotton Bowl was packed for the first time, to see the bone-crushing Texas Aggies tackle the bone-crushing Fordham Rams. The Aggies had Jarrin' John Kimbrough, who was reportedly offered $37,500 last week to turn professional next year with the upstart New York Yankees. The Rams had no Kimbrough, but they had a better backfield, a better line. After outplaying the Farmers for two periods, the Rams were caught napping, watched the Texans score one touchdown, then another, to win the game by one point...