Word: featherweights
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...heated a 40-gallon cauldron of soup. Chief Petty Officer O'Flaherty was delicately keeping a director sight upon the foremast of the enemy flagship: "With every microscopic variation of the ... sight ... six guns moved too . . . five hundred tons of steel and machinery swaying to each featherweight touch...
...Rough-&-tumble, 20-year-old Willie Pep (real name Papaleo) of Hartford, Conn.: the world's featherweight boxing championship; dethroning cagey, aging Chalky Wright of Los Angeles after a 15-rounder that drew a crowd of 19,000 (and a $71,000 gate); at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. Pep, who has won 54 fights in a row, is the third featherweight champion to come from Hartford. His predecessors: "Kid" Kaplan and "Bat" Battalino...
Scheduled to appear about a year after war's end, the new cars will be streamlined into ladybug-like lumps. Using aluminum, magnesium, other featherweight metals, they will weigh 1,200 Ib. (v. 2,700 to 4,200 Ib. now). Aviation gas (100 octane) will power lightweight engines, mounted in the rear. Wheels will be smaller (13 in. and less) to save rubber, permit a lower center of gravity. Bodies will be of plastic, tops will be of transparent plastic such as is now used on bomber noses. Best feature of all: prices...
...each) made in Rio by native groups under the platinum-haired maestro's guiding hand. Local orchestras play sambas (the best most danceable to date) and macumhas with dizzy cross rhythms. Pixinguingha, a 250-pound Negro medal winner of the Brazilian National Academy of Music, puts in some featherweight flute-playing. Two sides are emboladas: as folkish to Brazilians as Frankie and Johnny is to Americans. Of the fascinating chants by Indian singers, one has so strangely Gregorian a flavor that it seems to show the hand of the Portuguese fathers who braved the Amazon jungles three centuries...
...pugnacious little featherweight, Cail McCaughey, tried to enlist in Philadelphia, was turned down-too small. An Army recruiting officer told him to try the Navy upstairs. "Nuts," said Featherweight McCaughey. "I was up there three times. And three times I got thrown...