Athletes

Lieut. Tom Harmon, 1940's top gridiron star, sole survivor of a plane crash in the jungles of French Guiana last April, bagged his first Zero in a raid on Hong Kong.

Tony Galento, the heavyweight who walks like a beer barrel, lost his appeal from a conviction and $10 fine for taking a punch at a cop last spring.

Henry Ford threw down the gauntlet to a gossip columnist. Merry-Go-Rounder Drew Pearson had broadcast that 80-year-old Ford is not up to his job. Cried the wiry octogenarian: "I can lick him in anything he suggests. I never felt better in my life....

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