Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old bachelor of quiet habits, who likes music and plays the bass fiddle himself, he had managed to outpoint Jersey Joe Walcott in a dull fight this summer (TIME, July 4). That made him heavyweight champion of the world in the eyes of the National Boxing Association (a title good in 47 states). Last week, as he squared off against tired old (34) Gus Lesnevich in Yankee Stadium, he was out to impress the big holdout: the powerful New York State Boxing Commission, whose chairman, Eddie Eagan, thought that Charles ought to prove himself further...
...nobody wanted unity on Scott's terms, and for the moment, the committeemen were less interested in the Democrats than they were in the control of their own party. The old, uneasy Taft-Stassen alliance of the Philadelphia days had settled well in advance on New Jersey's Guy George Gabrielson as its candidate for national chairman. He was an Iowa boy who made good in the big city as a Wall Street lawyer and industrialist. "Even Paul Robeson couldn't find fault with Gabrielson," said a Negro committeeman from Mississippi. Trilled the committeewoman from Iowa...
...self-made businessman, a graduate of Harvard Law School, Gabrielson is 58, a calm, pipe-smoking conservative. He served four terms in the New Jersey state legislature, became speaker of the assembly, ran the state campaigns in 1936 and 1940. He supported Ohio's Bob Taft last year, was later peeved by Dewey's do-nothing campaign. He insists, however, that he will be neutral on the job: "The chairman's job is to elect candidates, not select them...
...effect, was for charity. Referee Jack Dempsey gave his services free. Film Comedians Bud Abbott & Lou Costello promoted it as a benefit in aid of the youth foundation established by Costello after his infant son died in 1943. Lightweight Champion Ike Williams, a cool, sharpshooting Negro from New Jersey, whose manager is a good friend of Costello's, took only 7½% of the gate, although Enrique Bolanos, the Mexican-born challenger...
...Finland had never missed a remittance day. She had paid the U.S. Government more than $8,000,000 (chiefly in interest) on the original $8,281,926.17 relief loan. After World War II she began paying again, still has $13 million to go. "These remarkable people," declared New Jersey's Senator H. Alexander Smith last winter, "appear determined in a world of forgotten principles to make their country an example of integrity...