Charles Walcott era fades as heavyweights drift
The essay weighs Ez zard Charles as the era shifts post Tunney Louis and pits him against Woodcock and Savold. It notes Charles lacks punch and fight-fire, while praising his boxing craft and likening him to a .270 hitter. The piece recalls Tunney, Louis, and Schmeling as the era’s defining names.
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Roosevelts era pupil jokes about ambition and politics
A grammar school pupil in Franklin D Roosevelt's third term says he studies just enough to pass. His aunt objects that without hard study he cannot become President. The boy retorts that he has no ambition and is a Republican. An Englishman abroad questions a man’s nationality, asking if he is foreign. the man replies that he is American.
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