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...Walcott in a slow-moving travesty last June, the aging (34) champ announced-to the relief of his fans and his mother-that he had fought his last fight. Now his agent, Sol Strauss, of the 20th Century Sporting Club, announced that Joe would defend his title for the 26th time next June -if the winner of the Joe Baksi-Ezzard Charles bout "comes through good." Said Joe's mother: "I feel awful...
...Andrei A. Gromyko cast Russia's 26th veto-against the U.S. plan to control atomic energy...
Vital Statistics. Age: 58 (born Sept. 8, 1889, in Cincinnati, in a gingerbread Victorian house overlooking the Ohio River). Ancestry: eldest of the three children (two sons, one daughter) of William Howard Taft, 26th President of the U.S. and later Chief Justice; grandson of Alphonso Taft, Secretary of War and later Attorney General in the Cabinet of Ulysses S. Grant. Educated: at his Uncle Horace's Taft School in Watertown, Conn. (1906); Yale (1910); Harvard Law School (1913). Married: in 1914 to Martha Bowers, witty, vivacious daughter of President Taft's Solicitor General Lloyd Bowers. Children: William Howard...
...author of this sardonic invocation was bent, shriveled old Comrade Corradetti, a devout diabolist from Benevento; he was addressing the 26th National Congress of the Italian Socialist Party in Rome's new Cinema Astoria. The "Front" of which he spoke was the new popular front into which the Communists had just invited their Socialist comrades in order to fight the Marshall Plan (TIME...
...26th special session in U.S. history and the first since September 1939, when Roosevelt called one to revise the Neutrality...