Word: thought
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Professor Robert M. Hawkins of Vanderbilt University's School of Religion thought it a military rather than a moral question. "To me the atom bomb is just another weapon . . . Any weapon is inhumane, and I would rather be blown up with an atom bomb than bayoneted...
Observers who had seen both systems felt that RCA's color was still not quite so good as that of CBS. The New York Times's Jack Gould thought RCA's primary colors (red, blue and green) "appeared less harsh to the eye than was the case with the CBS system," but he found "a tendency toward green in some images" and "the RCA tints seemed somewhat less warm" than those of CBS. The Wall Street Journal's Joseph Guilfoyle complained that "the reds were off-color" in some pictures. Joseph Kaselow, in the New York...
Eddie Arcaro, who rode the Prince, thought his three-year-old might have had the worst of the weights (130 Ibs.) against five-year-old Noor (also 130 Ibs.) -but "still and all, my hat is off to Noor." Said wrinkled Jockey Johnny Longden: "Noor is the greatest stakes horse I ever rode." Said Noor's owner, Mrs. Charles S. Howard: "I believe we'll just retire him at his peak...
...Four times since he took Joe Louis' vacated title 18 months ago by outpointing Jersey Joe Walcott, Charles has taken on and knocked out would-be challengers. Only Joe Louis himself managed to stay in the ring with the champion for a full 15 rounds and that, some thought, may have been because Charles found himself unwilling, in the late rounds, to knock out a man he reveres. But because Charles lacks the shuffling deadliness of Joe Louis in his prime,* a lot of fight fans had labeled him a second-rate champion, the best around, to be sure...
...Club of New York, Don Meade last week appealed to the Florida commission for reinstatement. The commission voted 3-1 (over the strong dissent of its chairman) to give him a one-year probationary license. Now 37, but still capable of making a riding weight of 110 Ibs., Meade thought he had "several good years ahead-now that I've been given another chance...