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...Manhattan is still the biggest fashion center of all, and Seventh Avenue (from 34th Street to 40th Street) is its hub. There 8,500 women's-apparel manufacturers do 67.3% of the business-and they are a harried lot. Piracy is a stock in trade, and fashion rumors (both true and false) are the currency. Are tunics in? Will Dacron last? Is the two-piece bathing suit coming back? Gulping pastrami sandwiches and dodging careering handcarts packed with their rivals' dresses, Seventh Avenue's denizens must decide. Their decisions are based on nothing more than the gossamer...
...explain the rules, Nelson cut him short: "Let everything go. No fouls." That was all right with Ad. It was a fight to the finish. In the 23rd round Nelson, the "Durable Dane," dropped the challenger with a liver punch. Somehow, Ad got up and fought on. In the 40th round Eddie stopped the fight. Nelson was a helpless hulk, his face a mess of bleeding flesh. But the winner had taken more of a licking than anyone realized. In two short years Ad Wolgast fought 21 times, finally lost his title to Willie Ritchie in another vicious slugfest. From...
...Made plans to return to West Point this June for the first time since he became President. It will be the 40th reunion of his class (1915). Classmates include General James A. Van Fleet. General of the Army Omar N. Bradley and Lieut. General George E. Stratemeyer...
...preparation for the grueling affair, Chrisman entered the Brighton Read Race and finished 40th in a strong field of more than 100. Pates placed 84th in the 10 1/2 mile Cathedral Run in South Boston...
Over the 22.8 mile course, Crissman wondered whether he was on sight-seeing tour or a snowless slalom as he plugged up and down the Brighton hills. Despite the interference, the lanky junior finished 40th...