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...hard it hurts him. By keeping things on a friendly basis, such smart boxers as Bob Pastor and Billy Conn induced the Brown Bomber to toy with them for as many as eleven and 13 rounds before the inevitable kill. But Tami (rhymes with mammy) Mauriello, the tubby Bronx challenger, decided to play rough. At the opening bell of last week's title fight he walked out from his corner, took one look at the overconfident Louis, and pitched a right with the urgency of a man unloading a hand grenade. It connected, and the world's heavyweight...
...against surprise than that of Trygve Lie, Secretary-General of the United Nations. But last April 11, he received a telegram which might well have set his ganglia to twanging. In it one James J. O'Neill requested the privilege of moving U.N. from Hunter College in The Bronx to its new home at Lake Success, Long Island. His proposed fee: one dollar...
...York City's Bronx Zoo, Superintendent Quentin Schubert and Executive Secretary John Tee-Van pondered the problem of how to weigh Pete, a 43-year-old hippopotamus. Scales were obviously out of the question. Suddenly they remembered Archimedes...
Professor Herring acts as Secretary of the Commission and chief of its secretariat. His office will be at Hunter College in the Bronx...
...national expansion; requests for information were coming in from potential chapters in other U.S. cities. This summer 61-year-old Chaplain Nesbitt plans to start things moving in Washington, D.C., Wilmington and Cape Cod while on "vacation" from his trim, tree-shaded St. Luke's Church in The Bronx. Alive to the perils of bigotry, Irish-Methodist Nesbitt unfailingly invites Catholics to St. George organization meetings, works in close collaboration with the Catholic police chaplain. Nevertheless, he earnestly says: "The way to win a man or a woman-or a church-is to fight." Last week, looking more like...