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Winner of the middleweight championship for the fourth time in his 17-year professional career, Sugar Ray grabbed the mike and laid praise about him. "I owe much to millions of people who had faith in me and who prayed for me," he said. "I owe much to Joe Louis for his moral support and knowledge of boxing. I owe much to Father Lang [the Rev. Jovian Lang of Roman Catholic St. Joseph's Seminary in Westmont, Ill.] for spiritual guidance." Robinson, explained Manager Gainford later, is a tolerant freelancer. "He will go anywhere-synagogue, Protestant Church, Catholic Church...
...right thing, but performance with elegance casts a spell. Let me do some thinking in the direction of impeccable, symmechromatic, thunder-blender . . . (The exotics, if I can shape them a little.) Dearborn might come into one ... I thank you for realizing that under contract esprit could not flower. You owe me nothing, specific or moral...
...Where there aren't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst") and bore the white man's burden to Fuzzy-Wuzzies and Gunga Dins, will be cut down to only 160,000 men, all regulars. The R.A.F., the few to whom so many owe so much, will become an air force without combat airplanes of about 150,000 men. The Royal Navy, which for centuries enforced the Pax Britannica and patrolled an empire from Gibraltar to Rangoon, will be reduced to 75,000 men. "The role of naval forces in total war is somewhat...
...effects man who put the chill into oldtime movies, e.g., King Kong. After the Oscar-awarding show, Rader got a wooden Oscar from his co-workers bearing the inscription: "To Paul Rader, for the best story borrowed in 1956." Said Rader: "I'm convinced that it [The Brave Owe] came from my script." (The Nassour brothers claim their suit was recently settled out of court...
...owe a vote of thanks to Charles Wilson, not alone for what he has accomplished as Secretary of Defense, but even more for what he has tried to do in his blunt, honest way to cut through the muddled poli-thinking of Government today. Poli-thinking is a political phenomenon resulting from men having both ears to the ground-a position which naturally prevents keeping one eye on the future. If the National Guard, Air Force, Army, Marines or Navy are not prepared to fulfill their defense missions, it is his job to tell Congress. Too bad there aren...