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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...
Harvard Boxing Coach Henry Lamar yesterday claimed that the Tony De Marco-Virgil fight on Oct. 29 in the Garden should be an elimination battle rather than a welterweight title bout...
...speaking engagement before the International Monetary Fund, then held a brief, tense conference with Brownell. Barely back in Rhode Island that afternoon, Ike heard from Brownell over the maximum-security telephone in his personal quarters. The news was all bad. A mob ruled at Central High. School Superintendent Virgil Blossom (voted the city's Man of the Year in 1955, now vilified for backing a gradual integration plan) had excitedly called the Justice Department: "Mayor Mann wants to know who to call to get federal help...