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...most responsible for the boom in boxers is John P. Wagner, a Chicago utility financier and onetime Great Dane breeder. Thirteen years ago, Wagner took a $4,000 gamble by buying Dorian von Marienhof, the champion boxer of Germany. Then he talked 50 or so people (including Jack Dempsey and Sally Rand) into buying shares in his prize brute...
...Crimson salvaged only four out of thirteen firsts. John Harrigan won the high jump, setting a new Cage record with a 6 feet, 7/8 inch leap; lacrosse captain Bob Forsyth took the 35-pound weight throw; Pat McCormick hit the yard first in the 60-yard high hurdles; and Dave Carter won the broad jump...
Beer & Beef. Thirteen years ago, burly Frankie Laine was singing for beer and beef at the Stamford (Conn.) German Club; for half a dozen years before, he had been an unnoticed mediocrity on the soggy-ballad circuit around Chicago nightclubs. He had given up singing for selling cars, songwriting (It Only Happens Once) and, during the war, defense work. But, says Frankie, the son of a Chicago barber, "I couldn't stay away from it long . . . I hadda get up in front and sing." In 1946, he made only $2,000 at it. Then things began to happen...
...varsity hockey team, behind 5 to 4 with but thirteen minutes left to play, suddenly went on a scoring binge, tallied five times and dumped Northeastern 9 to 5 in the feature attraction at the Arena Wednesday night. The hardy few who snubbed the impending exams to attend were treated to the sixty most violent minutes of hockey seen on Arena ice this winter...
...Thirteen Steps. It had been unseasonably warm in Tokyo, but on the last day it turned cold. The seven were notified of the execution time 15 hours beforehand. Tojo said, jokingly, in English: "Okay, okay." He thanked the prison warden for decent treatment, and said he had been afraid that he would be snatched from bed and executed so quickly that he would not have time to express properly his gratitude to the authorities...