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...fighting-everybody likes a winner, man"), Moore was already a professional of sorts at the age of seven, fighting in impromptu preliminaries in Springfield's Memorial Hall and pulling off his gloves to scramble for the nickels and dimes that were tossed into the ring. By 1952, Bantamweight Moore was good enough to win the A.A.U. title, reach the quarter-finals of the Olympics. Turning pro the next year, Moore seemed to be only a so-so fighter until 1957, when he suddenly came alive, has since won 15 straight...
...sport or a sideshow. Dutifully they drank Cokes and made muscles for Manhattan photographers: dutifully they helped hoist "Miss Body Beautiful" aloft for enterprising Chicago newsmen. Light-Heavyweight Trofim Lomakin let one publicity man con him into posing on horseback until a comrade muttered: "Cossack!" Bantamweight Vladimir Stogov, an army chauffeur, took a turn behind the wheel of a new Ford, fled in terror when he pushed a button and the retractable hardtop began to fold. By the time the Russians got to their first match in Chicago's International Amphitheater they should have been thoroughly bushed. But they...
...breath control he learned as a synagogue cantor has given him extra power. He hoisted a total of 804⅓ lbs. for a new world record. The other U.S. squad members seemed so far from shape that the rest of the scheduled matches promised to be Russian pushovers. Bantamweight (class limit: 123½ Ibs.) Charles Vinci, a squat Ohio steelworker who has been recently unemployed, had been forced to trade valuable training time for job hunting, and was worn out. Middle-Heavyweight (198½ Ibs.) Dave Sheppard, the handsome health-food salesman who claims an unofficial world eating championship (five...
Robert Ralph Young was a bantamweight scrapper (135 Ibs.) with heavyweight ideas, who came out of obscurity as a Wall Street speculator to become the most powerful and most debated railroad tycoon of his day. As board chairman of the New York Central, the nation's second biggest railroad, and an important voice in several other roads, Bob Young had collected all the prizes of a champion battler: wealth, power, glittering friends (the Duke and Duchess of Windsor et al.), palatial homes in Palm Beach and Newport...
...dead ends as Algiers' Bab-El-Oued, a kind of Disunited Nations where Spaniards, Italians, Maltese and French mix it up with Moslem natives. Former Middleweight Champion Marcel Cerdan, killed in a plane crash in 1949, was born in the Foreign Legion town of Sidi-bel-Abbes. Former Bantamweight Champ Robert Cohen beat his way out of Bone in Algeria. French Featherweight Champion Cherif Hamia hails from Guergnon, another swarming Algerian town...