Word: bobo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Honolulu Middleweight Carl ("Bobo") Olson, a technical knockout, after six rounds of a scheduled ten-round bout with The Bronx's badly outclassed Gene Hairston; in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. At ringside: Middleweight Champion Sugar Ray Robinson, displaying a surgically rebuilt nose and a lack of interest in a future match with Olson, who is the probable heir to Robinson's crown-if Sugar Ray retires without defending...
...Bobo Rockefeller is quoted in TIME (June 23) as saying that she will never forget Winthrop Rockefeller "because there is an old saying that a woman never forgets the father of her firstborn." To speculate about the origins of this maxim is fascinating. Back in the days when old sayings were in the making, grandmamma took the place of television. When she was in the mood to remnisce, the grandchildren gathered round . . . She liked to talk about her youth, and one yarn went something like this: "The father of my firstborn was a Mr. Drybutter. He had a slack spade...
...stepfather's small farm near Lowell, Ind., Barbara Paul Sears ("Bobo") Rockefeller, 35, the miner's "Cinderella" daughter who married Winthrop Rockefeller in 1948 and separated from him 2½ years ago, cried out against the false glitter of gold. Of the $1,000,000 trust fund set up by her husband last February for their three-year-old son, Winthrop Jr., Bobo said contemptuously: "It doesn't mean a thing. It's inadequate if he's to be raised to the station in life that a Rockefeller should be . . . A Rockefeller wasn...
BROOKLYN, May 19--Carl "Bobo" Olson of San Francisco scored a technical knockout over Walter Cartier of New York in the fifth round tonight when the ring physician ordered the 10-round bout stopped because of Cartier's injured right ankle...
...World Middleweight Champion Sugar Ray Robinson, in his first defense of his regained title, a 15-round decision over Carl ("Bobo") Olson; in San Francisco. Obviously ring-rusty and, at 31, no longer able to go at top speed for 45 minutes, Robinson acted like a man about to retire after his next two fights. Opponents: onetime Champion Rocky Graziano, in April and Paddy Young, in May, "if I still have my title...