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British boxing fans hardly knew what to make of Bruce Woodcock, whose quiet manner camouflaged a paralyzing right-hand wallop. In 19 professional fights, he had won 18 of them by knockouts within six rounds. Last week, paying $2 to $42 for their seats, 38,000 jammed London's Tottenham Stadium to see Challenger Woodcock meet Champion Jack London for the British and Empire heavyweight, crown...
Back in the Detroit lineup last week, after four years in the Army, big Hank Greenberg needed just four chances at bat to get his eye in. On the fifth try, he powdered a 375-ft. homer into his favorite left-field stand. With that wallop (and a repeat three days later), ex-Captain Greenberg: 1) began earning his $55,000-a-year salary, baseball's highest (for 60 days at least his pay remains at the 1941 rate); 2) made the front-running Tigers odds-on to win the American League pennant; 3) gave a psychological lift...
...cold facts of soil conservation, health, education. Classes were highly informal, with the preachers lounging in overstuffed chairs and enthusiastically shouting "Amen!" when a speaker made a telling point. After two weeks of hard study, most of them took a night off to see the Atlanta Crackers baseball club wallop Nashville...
...help of N. W. Ayer, Paepcke embarked on an ad program using modern art for illustration. The ads proved to be eye-catchers. Even though some-like Abstractionist Jean Helion's-were practically unsolvable riddles, the public seemed to like them. Convinced that the paintings packed a selling wallop, Paepcke next ordered copy boned down to one-sentence, telegraphic messages like "No land is strange to U.S. paper packages today...
...selected national champions before they played a single game. It was a burden that even Navy's powerful line and great backfield could not carry: they bowed twice, on flukes and fumbles, to North Carolina Pre-Flight and to Georgia Tech. Then they came back to wallop Pennsylvania, 26-to-0. Last week at Baltimore, Navy's big guns poured broadside after broadside into unbeaten Notre Dame. Final score: Navy 32, Notre Dame...