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...California, Lightweight Art Aragon is known as the "Golden Boy." He has a handsome profile, a flashy boxing style, and a smashing left that has knocked out half of his opponents. In Harlem, Lightweight Jimmy Carter is known by no nickname, has the plug-ugly looks of a club fighter, and has about as much crowd appeal as a store-window dummy in the rush hour. But Carter has some assets of his own: a deep pride in the lightweight title he took from Ike Williams in an upset last May, and, as the boxers say, "a pair of good...
...feinted while Carter stolidly accepted his lumps, tossed back only a few retaliatory licks. But in Round 6, Carter opened up. A jarring left sent Golden Boy tumbling to the canvas for a count of three. Carter's slashing, two-fisted attack drove him from corner to corner. Aragon never won another round...
Lightweight Championship (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS & CBS-TV). Jimmy Carter v. Art Aragon; from Los Angeles...
...Emblem. Not until the spring of 1949 did the dove achieve bodily form. As the World Peace Congress met in Paris, Communist Poet Louis Aragon went to Pablo Picasso, who likes to say, "I came to the Party as to a fountain." Aragon wanted an emblem, and his eye fell on a lithograph of a dove on the wall. "Ha," said Aragon. The World Peace Congress, after hearing Baritone Paul Robeson assail "the slanders of the American mercenary press," happily adopted Picasso's dove and happily applauded Fadeyev's attack on the makers of the North Atlantic Pact...
...good. Columbia Records, beaming at their sales in the limited-distribution "international series" last year, decided to move them into the "popular" division, give them nationwide promotion. Meanwhile, the Yanks were also scheduled to leave the Middle West for a six-weeks' date at Los Angeles' Aragon Ballroom and a movie short in Hollywood...