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...winning his 45th professional bout, his 40th by a knockout, Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano collected $187,000. It might be his last big check for a while. At the moment, nobody seemed to be able to think of a natural new challenger...
Until his 40th birthday, Roy Herbert Thomson never owned a newspaper or hoped to. But once started, Thomson made up for lost time as few publishers have. After he bought a tiny paper in Northern Canada (with $3,000 he borrowed), the newspaper business looked so easy to Thomson that he confidently told a friend: "I'll be a millionaire some day." It was an accurate prediction. At 59, Publisher Thomson owns a string of 18 dailies all over Canada, close to one-fourth of Canada's English-language newspapers. Last year he pushed into...
...40th Infantry Division...
...Howe picked up the puck on his stick, whirled past the defenseman, feinted Goalie Rollins out of position, and fired a sizzling 20-footer into the net. Time & again the pair had worked this strategy. This one was a milestone: Howe's 200th goal in N.H.L. play, his 40th this season. In the third period, again with an assist from Captain Lindsay, Howe netted...
Edwin and Irwin Rietz, twins and 21, were drafted together a year ago in Rock Island, Ill. They were shipped to Korea together as medical corpsmen in the 40th Infantry Division. Neither got a chance to treat a battle case until Jan. 3, on the first anniversary of their induction...