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...Slattery touched gloves and began to weave about each other, glaring. Since the spring evening upon which they had simultaneously established their reputations, Berlenbach had been disqualified for stalling in a bout against Tony Marullo (TIME, July 27), and Slattery been knocked unconscious by a blow from the fist of David Shade, welterweight (TIME, July 13). The stalling, many thought was quite to be expected from a onetime taxidriver; the knockout was a regrettable accident. Nevertheless, as the two squared off, not a few, who had learned through experience the pathetic fallacy of style, had their money on Berlenbach...
...Correspondents attended a Presidential Press Conference. For a moment it looked as though they were going to have a chance to feature something besides the President's taciturnity. He was "obviously annoyed." It seemed for a time as if he might pound his fist. Then the Coolidge lips pursed themselves. From between them escaped "vitriolic sarcasm." Without raising his voice the President dealt scathingly with open and covert opponents of his debt funding and budget slashing plans...
...Parliament reassembled at Teheran after the summer recess. Promptly members broke into fist fighting and riots. The trouble started when a member of the minority party was offered the post of Minister of Justice...
...last touch of dressing is to choose a cap from the basket Josephine produces. M. France holds them out on his fist, one by one-papal bonnets, velvet skull-pieces, pagoda-caps, purple choir-wafers, mandarin hats. He fits on one in red-current Jouy cloth. The day begins...
...tournament to see who should succeed him. Two men reached the finals. This couple-one James Goodrich (Buffalo), one Stanislaus Loayza (Chile)-fought a depressing bout last week on Long Island. In the first round, Goodrich walked over to the Chilean, hit him in the face with his right fist. Loayza fell down, got up again. Goodrich hit him in the face with his right fist, etc. This operation was continued without relief for three interminable minutes. "Goodrich tires," yelled a hopeful voice from the cheap seats. But Goodrich did not. tire. In the second round, he repeated his merciless...