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Friday. Surgeon General Scheele-whose own eight-year-old son Leonard ("Bobo") had been vaccinated-testified before the House Banking and Currency Committee (which was considering the vaccine-control bills). Scheele said that all vaccine not yet shipped from the manufacturers' plants was embargoed. At Bethesda, meanwhile, the experts' meeting went on until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Halt! | 5/16/1955 | See Source »

...Carl ("Bobo") Olson (169 Ibs.), middleweight champion of the world, bounced the former Light-Heavyweight Champion Joey Maxim (175 Ibs.) off the canvas of San Francisco's Cow Palace and earned a unanimous decision. Long a competent boxer, Bobo likes to think that he has the heft and punch to rate a crack at Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano (187 Ibs.), may well have proved his point. ¶Less than a month after they whipped the Montreal Canadiens for the National Hockey League championship, Detroit's Red Wings took on Les Canadiens again for the Stanley Cup. Without their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Apr. 25, 1955 | 4/25/1955 | See Source »

...Chicago, Middleweight Champion "Bobo" Olson, in a nontitle bout, took on "Tiger" Jones, the man who made a has-been of Sugar Ray Robinson (TIME, Jan. 31), snapped and slashed his punches with familiar authority, won his 19th straight victory, by a unanimous decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Feb. 28, 1955 | 2/28/1955 | See Source »

...nationally-televised bout was a terrific blow to the hopes of Robinson, who came out of a 30-month boxing retirement in hopes of recapturing the 160-pound crown from present champion Bobo Olson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: National Sports | 1/20/1955 | See Source »

Middleweight Champion Carl ("Bobo") Olson goes about his ring work in the methodical, workmanlike way of a power shovel moving a specified amount of earth. A power shovel lacks drama, but there are always sidewalk superintendents around to watch. Last week 16,543 superintendents, paying $107,660, flocked into San Francisco's Cow Palace-joining millions of free lookers on TV-to watch Bobo defend his title against France's Pierre Langlois...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Power Shovel | 12/27/1954 | See Source »

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