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...challenger than Gus Dorazio, Red Burman, Al McCoy or the half-dozen other second-raters who have served as punching bags for the Champ. Patterned on the lines of Primo Camera, Giant Simon, a stand-up boxer (6 ft. 4 in.), had nothing up his forearm but the longest reach (83 in.) and the largest mitts (14½ in.) in the fight game...
...tunnel is 3,300 ft. below ground, will be about 32,000 ft. long; Golden Cycle claims that it will be the longest of its kind ever dug. The company hopes to sell the water for irrigation purposes. New ore discoveries also will foot part of the bill; last month the diggers struck a vein assaying $65 a ton, six times as much as most of the ore now mined from the field...
After the longest trial in Pennsylvania history (60 days of testimony), the jury last week awarded Marcus $315,100.91, double the amount of the Government losses which it found that he had proved. Unless a higher court reverses the decision, Mr. Marcus and his unenthusiastic Government will profit by $157,550.45 each...
...Wash Porter took other quarters. Last week, because he was sure the Logans were planning to sell some of his fanciest items, Collector Porter resolved to reoccupy his lakeshore fastness, and taking friends and reporters along broke in at dawn. Drawing on cellar stocks with which to withstand the longest siege, he cried: "A man's house is his castle. I defy anyone...
Tobacco Road (20th Century-Fox) is a film perversion of the longest-running play in theatrical history, now in its eighth year. Jack Kirkland's stage play, adapted from Erskine Caldwell's novel, is a low-down drama of dirt, malnutrition and moral decay among Georgia backwoods farmers. It is full of rank, rutty sexuality, cretin humors, and a certain comedy of destruction...