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Providence, perennially one of the cross-country powers in New England, has split two decisions so far this season. It lost to a very strong Army squad and defeated Manhattan. B.U., without the IC4-A champ, John Kelly, should finish third today...
...sagged to the canvas. He was up at the count of four. Rocky was all over him, pumping those stubby arms with awful, awkward power. Down for the third time. Charles took the count of ten. He was still groggy when he stumbled across the ring to congratulate the champ...
...Grey Ghost had come back. Last week, at Saratoga Springs. Native Dancer, one of the finest thoroughbreds ever to run on an American track, went to the starting gate (in a betless race) for the first time since May and romped home a winner. The champ seemed fit and fully recovered from the bruised foot that forced him into temporary retirement (TIME, June...
Died. Bennett Champ Clark, 64, onetime (1933-45) U.S. Senator from Missouri, son of the famed (1911-19) Speaker of the House Champ Clark; of a heart ailment; in Gloucester, Mass. As aide and understudy to his father, Bennett Clark, at 22, maneuvered desperately behind the scenes in the Democratic Convention of 1912 to help his father wrest the presidential nomination away from Woodrow Wilson. During his twelve years in the Senate, Clark alternately fought and supported the New Deal, in 1945 accepted an appointment to a U.S. circuit judgeship from Good Friend and Fellow Missourian Harry S. Truman, best...
...Gilbert turns out to be a better than adequate painter with an inclination to color bananas blue; he suffers amusingly through a stint at the opera (someone told him it was "Tristan -versus Isolde"), and brilliantly handles a pugnacious drunk at a nightclub. Allen Jenkins agonizes familiarly as the champ's trainer, and Phyllis Coates is eye-filling as a Park Avenue blonde...