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...magic name: Joe Louis. Only those right at the ringside could see that Louis at 37, balding and thick-waisted, was little more than a bloated, moonfaced caricature of the famed Brown Bomber. The gamblers, out of respectful memory, made Joe a 7-5 favorite-but it was the shortest price ever quoted on the ex-champion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Joe Goes Out | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

...shortest distance from Russia to America's industrial heart lies across the North Pole and down through the expanse of Canada. Last week, to help guard this vital approach, four more zones of a coast-to-coast air-defense system went into operation along the Canadian-U.S. border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Ready for Alerts | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

...sentence: Babbittry triumphs over Christianity . . . We are not likely to be any different, as long as students only want to know, and schools teach, the shortest way to a buck. Idealism has replaced sex as the forbidden topic of conversation. J. H. SUMMERELL Detroit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 17, 1951 | 9/17/1951 | See Source »

...miles) north and south of the 38th parallel; ¶The 12½-mile-wide strip thus created across the peninsula to be under the civil administration of the North and South Korean governments; ¶Prisoners to be exchanged; ¶ All "foreign troops" to withdraw from Korea in "the shortest possible time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEASE-FIRE: Toward an Agenda | 7/23/1951 | See Source »

...terms is clearly unacceptable to the U.N. Item: it would cause the U.N. forces to give up substantial ground already won. Item: it provides no machinery, e.g., mutual inspection, to make sure that the truce is kept. Item: to withdraw from Korea under any circumstances "in the shortest possible time" would be to leave South Korea to the mercy of the Communists once again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CEASE-FIRE: Toward an Agenda | 7/23/1951 | See Source »

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