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Best authorities agree that Max Baer or any other hard-hitter might knock out a cow or bull by punching it between the eyes, but it would certainly not kill the beast, certainly would break the puncher's hand. There is no record of a prizefighter's trying it. However Max Baer, while helping his father in the butchering business in California, sometimes slugged cattle unconscious by punching them in the short ribs. Jack Dempsey, the late James J. Corbett and other pugilists have tried their hand at steer-knocking in the Chicago stockyards. The knocker wields...
...miners' hovels at nearby Scots' Run. Once the property of Col. John Fairfax of Virginia, whose friend George Washington surveyed part of it, Reedsville was purchased by the Government last year from Farmer Richard M. Arthur. In its 50 white model cottages of the ready-made knock-down type are electric lights, modern plumbing, coal stoves, fireplaces, furnaces, double-decker beds and (by special request) bathtubs...
...hours ticked toward midnight two crises neared. A knock at the door might mean either a trained nurse or a political secretary, bursting with news. Queen Astrid was in labor and highly excited was His Majesty's Swedish mother-in-law. So too were all the Cabinet Ministers. Disruption threatened the Cabinet of Premier Count Charles de Broqueville, a delicate coalition formed year and a half ago under the mighty shield of the late King Albert's personal prestige. Thrice before his death the Cabinet was saved only by royal refusals Keystone KING LEOPOLD Like his father...
...Connell) was a weakly child-"a Sagittarius baby," he recalls-who only survived his school days by his gift for adroit ducking. This talent he uses to good effect one evening when tipsy Speed, world's middleweight champion, and his trainer simultaneously swing on him, miss and knock each other out. Misinformed, newspaper headlines next day scream that unknown Burleigh 'Sullivan has thrashed the champion. To save Speed's reputation, Burleigh is persuaded by Speed's manager to abandon his beloved milk route, become a fighter himself so that Speed may eventually demolish him in public...
...VOICE-James Rorty- Day ($3). Advertising, defined variously as an art, a racket, a Midas, a parasite, is one of the twelve greatest U. S. industries. In 1929 it did a two-billion dollar business. Like most other U. S. industries, advertising since 1929 has had many a hard knock. Your Money's Worth (TIME, July 25, 1927), by Stuart Chase & F. J. Schlink, and 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs (1933), by F. J. Schlink and Arthur Kallet, lifted the lid on some cynical advertising secrets. Last week, amid cries of "Foul!" from its partisans, advertising took a shrewd...