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...ablest professional players are less likely to be All-Americans than crack players from obscure teams, like Stapleton's Quarterback Bob Campiglio, from West Liberty Teachers, and the Giants' end, Ray Flaherty, from Gonzaga. Some professionals are discovered by scouts. Others, like the Giants' Fullback Mulleneaux, who arrived from Arizona as a hobo, ask for employment. Professional players who have been famed in college get salaries much higher than the average of $125 per game, during their first season. Minnesota's Bronko Nagurski, now fullback for the Chicago Bears, gets about $300. Cagle gets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Football, Dec. 12, 1932 | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

...ugliest professional athletes in the U. S. last week crawled through the ropes of a ring at Madison Square Garden. One was blubbery Ed ("Strangler") Lewis, recognized by the New York State Athletic Commission as the heavyweight wrestling champion of the world. The other was crook-nosed Ray Steele, whose challenge the Commission had ordered Lewis to accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Steele v. Strangler | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

...challenge Champion Londos. Last summer, the New York State Athletic Commission ordered Champion Londos to wrestle Champion Lewis. When Champion Londos failed to obey, the Commission awarded his title to Champion Lewis on condition that Champion Lewis defend it first against fat Jack Sherry of Alaska, next against lumbering Ray Steele. By defeating Steele last week, Strangler Lewis became positively the only world's wrestling champion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Steele v. Strangler | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

...Gould), the Cross of the French Legion of Honor; Joel Thompson Boone, President Hoover's physician, the Purple Heart medal (recently revived Revolutionary award for war service) and the Silver Star medal; Radiologist Leon Menville, the gold medal of the Radiological Society of North America for applying Roentgen ray examination to the lymphatic system in cancer work; Nobel Prizeman Prince Louis de Broglie, the 100,000-franc ($3,900) Prince of Monaco grand prix of the French Academy of Sciences, for work in theoretical physics...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 12, 1932 | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

Many a Buchmanite, says Russell, takes no thought for the morrow, what he shall eat or wear, lives on a budget of faith and prayer. When Russell thought of visiting the U. S., cabled Buchmanite Ray Purdy about it, Purdy cabled back: "Come on a basis of faith and prayer. Check your decision with Frank." Russell came, visited the U. S. for six months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Evangelic | 12/12/1932 | See Source »

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