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...bout for Joe Louis' heavyweight title between Ezzard Charles and Jersey Joe Wolcott will be sponsored in Chicago, probbably in June, by Louis' new International Boxing Club...
...soon passed the Senate for the first time. It fared less well thereafter, for it was consistently kept out of the House by the Banking and Currency Committee. In spite of the efforts of Senator Tobey in the emergency summer session, the House blockade remained unbroken; Jesse Wolcott, Chairman of the House Banking Committee, Speaker Martin, Majority Leader Halleck, and Chairman Allen of the Rules Committee absolutely refused to allow its consideration...
...night five months ago, after knocking out Jersey Joe Wolcott, Joe Louis mumbled into a mike through swollen lips, "For my mother-this is for her-tonight was my last fight." Since then, Joe had been thinking it over. He still kept on needing money, and voices kept reminding him that all he had to do was say the word and collect $500,000 or so. Last week, Joe said the word. He would defend his heavyweight title, for the 26th time, next June, probably against the least bad of three unpromising contenders-Lee Savold, Ezzard Charles or Joe Baksi...
Candidates for the five officers are: president: Joyce Leonard, Ellin Louria, Catherine McBane, Cherry Merritt, Connaught O'Connell, and Sally Vincent; vice-president; Judith Robinson, Elizabeth Trygstad, and Ann Wilson; secretary; Joan Abrams, Anita Bills, Margaret Me Collum, Dorothy Redman; treasurer; Martha Martin, Marianne Sorenson, Susan Wolcott; and class representative; Cynthia Cook, Jane Johnson. Alison Matthews, Judity Stephan, and Elisabeth Tucker...
Ordinarily I'm a devotee of both Wolcott Gibbs and Evelyn Waugh. So when I read Gibbs' delighted review of Waugh's "The Loved One" in the New Yorker last summer, I got hold of the book, clapped my hands for joy, and sat down for a good time. Now usually Waugh is excruciating and malevolent and vastly inventive. But not in "The Loved One." It is chiefly a one-joke book, and the joke isn't very good--it's about funeral parlor techniques--nor is its effect savage. So practically nothing of Waugh is there--little malevolence, less...