Word: virgil
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Virgil, 29-year-old master of the waiting game, had landed several damaging blows to the midsection prior to the last shot...
...victory in this Massachusetts version of the welterweight championship which Akins had won in this same ring last October put Virgil very much in the National Boxing Assn. Welter plans...
BOSTON, Jan. 21--Virgil Akins knocked weary Tony DeMarco into virtual fistic obscurity tonight with a 12th round technical knockout in a brutal rematch of welterweights at Boston Garden...
...Angeles Times (circ. 462,257), Norman Chandler's eight-year-old Los Angeles Mirror-News (308,594) is liberal Republican in outlook, breezy in style-and heavily in the red. Last week Chandler announced the "resignation" of the Mirror-News's independent-minded Editor-Publisher Virgil Pinkley, 50, onetime vice president and European manager of the United Press. Pinkley's successor: Hugh A. ("Bud") Lewis, longtime city editor of the Times. His probable first step: to attune the Mirror-News's editorial policy more closely to the Times, dropping such Ike-chiding editorial-page features...
...high-hat, high-topped, old-fashioned cars: "There are parts of this country, containing millions of people, where both the men and the ladies are in the habit of getting behind the wheel, or on the back seat wearing hats . . ." Not until 1952, when President L. L. Colbert made Virgil Exner, who had worked under Raymond Loewy styling the new eye-catching, postwar Studebaker, director of styling, did styling come into its own at Chrysler. Ford also cared so little for style that it let its out side bodybuilders design the new models, except for the Lincoln Zephyr...