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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Often battered, seldom beaten Henry Armstrong, 36, who eleven years ago held three world's championships (featherweight, lightweight, welterweight), and more recently has been managing fighters, announced in California that he intends to take a punch at the devil. He expects soon to be ordained a Baptist minister, tour the country preaching to sinners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Entrances & Exits | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...commission is sure the converter will work. The theoretical calculations are complete; the engineering designs are almost complete. No fuel has been bred so far because the reaction will not work except in a full-scale plant. A $3,500,000 plant will soon be built at Arco, Idaho...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Breeding Atoms | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...that fortuitous moment, Cameron met lissome, brunette Helen Maria Alvarez, 27, who in seven years at Tulsa's radio station KTUL had progressed from secretary to radio-time saleswoman. He soon persuaded Helen Alvarez to quit her job and become president of a new Cameron project-Tulsa's first television station, KOTV...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Helen of Tulsa | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...usually swings a No. 3 iron at imaginary golf balls. At 62, he is still willing to try almost anything once. At Sun Valley, not long ago, he spotted "Prince" Mike Romanoff, the Hollywood restaurateur, on skis, and promptly declared: "If Romanoff can do it, so can I." Soon Hilton was snowplow-ing down the beginners' slope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: The Key Man | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

People who live on the first floor consistently complain that men dressed in painters uniforms are watching them. When they look around, the "painters" glance quickly away, but the victims are sure that as soon as they go about their business, the "painters" start watching again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Black Hand | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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