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...first time since the days of Max Schmeling, the likeliest challenger for the world's heavyweight boxing title is a European. He is Sweden's Ingemar ("Ingo") Johansson, who last September took only one round to knock out the U.S.'s visiting Eddie Machen, up to then rated the No. 1 contender for Floyd Patterson's crown. In the past, Patterson's unpredictable manager Cus D'Amato has not matched his man with any fighter who could possibly be considered dangerous. But last week Johansson flew into Manhattan, held a summit meeting with...
...awarded the Nobel Prize for his discovery (TIME, Nov. 26), experimenters were finding that heavy water did strange things to small animals and plants. It killed guppies, tadpoles, flatworms, prevented tobacco seeds from sprouting, dimmed the light of luminous bacteria, made mice appear tipsy and terribly thirsty. Then Professor Ingo Waldemar Dagobert Hackh of San Francisco's College of Physicians & Surgeons guessed that a slow, steady increase in the amount of heavy water in the human body might be a cause of old age and senile death...
...Austen Chamberiain, M. P., winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1925. In 1914 the list was even more imposing. It included that lofty philosopher Lord Balfour, that glittering such Lord Curzon, and also Lord Kinnaird (President of the Y. M. C. A.). three bishops, and Dean Ingo of St.Paul's. It was in that same year that Socialist Philip Snowden spoke in Parliament; "It would be impossible to throw a stone on the benches opposite without hitting a member who is a shareholder in one or other of these firms...
Professor Ingo Waldemar Dagobert Hackh of San Francisco's College of Physicians & Surgeons communicated to Science a theory that the human body, which continually evaporates its water content, might gradually store up a richer & richer mixture of heavy water, which might well be the cause of old age. Dr. Urey rushed to the defense of his discovery, spurned the Hackh hypothesis as nothing but a theory based on no experiments...
...Ingo, Outspoken Essays, second series...