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...names are Eulalia, Emmarell, Vunies, Dulcinea. In Manhattan last week, where Harlem Negroes held church services to pray that he would win, Joe Louis was attended by four special Negro policemen for each of whom he bought a present after the fight. Before the fight, he predicted he would knock out Carnera in the fifth round. Carnera predicted he would win in the sixth. When it was over, Joe Louis gave out a detailed apology for his error: "I missed him in my round so I thought I might as well get him in his." Joe Louis' next fight...
...glad that William Rose Benét came to Mr. Auslander's defense [TIME, June 10] but your book reviews usually do knock poets and their work. I took it for granted that whoever writes them was not developed up to the point of appreciating poetry. You published a review of Ogden Nash's last book with a picture of John Chamberlain and his wife, and the story of Mr. Chamberlain's literary rise. You even said that Edna Millay wasn't so good! Ho, hum. Does your reviewer like Mother Goose...
...year-old Dr. Code, inventing Codeball-on-the-Green (on which he holds patents and copyrights) was the natural climax for a lifetime spent trying to improve and rearrange the purposes of other pastimes and occupations. He began by using a golf ball & driver to knock over bowling pins. He once bowled 228 balls in an hour. He won a wager by playing 18 holes of golf in 40 min., 45 sec., after wearing out three caddies, five scorers. He played 154 holes of golf in a day, stopped lest younger members of his club find his example an encouragement...
...clock one morning last week, just before he was going out to milk his cows, John Bonifas, a chicken farmer of Issaquah, Wash., heard a knock on his door. He opened it and there stood a dishevelled child wrapped in a dirty white blanket...
Soon he began to feel his oats. Far from apologetic for never having had an art lesson, he boldly lectured St. Louisans on art, organized a group known as the "New Hats." Said he: "I want to paint things that will knock holes in the walls." In the same mood he turned Communist. Impressed, St. Louis began giving him one-man shows, more prizes. Joe sent a picture to the Sixteen Cities Show in Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, with an autobiography: "Joe Jones. Born St. Louis, 1909. Self-taught...