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Walcott's big advantage over the Champ, who has been on top too long to be hungry, is incentive. No one doubted that the old Joe Louis could knock Joe Walcott stiff in a round or two. The big question, to be answered next week in Yankee Stadium, is whether the present-day Joe Louis can still beat anybody-even a deserving never-was like hungry Jersey...
...story was going around London last week: two Russians were discussing World War III. Said Ivan: "By 1952 we'll have the bomb and the first thing to do will be to knock out Britain. Five bombs in five stout suitcases should do the trick-one for Liverpool, one for Manchester, one for Birmingham, and two for London...
...addressed a crowd huddled under umbrellas at Newport, rode a white horse in Ontario, drank "blue ox milk" to please Roseburg's Paul Bunyan Club. Despite his victories over Dewey in Wisconsin and Nebraska, Stassen could not afford a defeat. But neither could Dewey. It was a knock-down fight which had astonished nobody so much as the open-mouthed voters of Oregon...
...electronic trickery he can make the controls and instruments in the cockpit behave as if a fuel line had clogged, or as if a deadly crust of ice were forming on the wings and tail surfaces. He can knock out the radio or devil it with static. He can kindle a fire in the baggage compartment or chill the passengers by knocking out the cabin heating system...
When France fell to the Nazis, thousands of stateless and homeless Europeans fled to Marseille, there to dream of visas to freedom that most were never to get. In this lecherous and filthy port, where men squirmed on the precipice of hysteria and a knock on the door might be a Vichyite summons to an internment camp, the agony of Europe was, for one delirious historical moment, crammed into a few square miles...