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Toothpicks & Jalopies. Samuel Powers Sears, 58 (remote kin of "Bobo" Paul Sears Rockefeller), comes from a Cape Cod seafaring family whose heritage he upholds as commodore of the Dennis (Mass.) Yacht Club. At Harvard ('17), Sam turned his musical talent into Hasty Pudding shows-tunes by Sears, words by Robert Sherwood. The pair worked in a musty office, where young Sherwood hung his portrait among those of the great poets, while Sam's was flanked by pictures of Bach, Beethoven and Mozart. Sam can still pound out lively barroom piano music, but with maturity, he has acquired...
...When Bobo Olson was a 15-year-old in Hawaii he was so keen to be a professional fighter that he had his arms tattooed and shaved his chest every day to make the hair grow faster-all so he would look old enough to get a fighter's license. Last week Middleweight Champion Olson, a balding 25-year-old, was candidly bored by the whole business: "I'm tired of fighting. I don't like it anymore. I'm doing it for the money alone-until I get enough to go into some kind...
...climbed into the Chicago ring for a fight with Welterweight Champion Kid Gavilan. Businessman Bobo should have been fairly well pleased. An audience of 18,582 fans had paid a whopping $334,730 at the gate. Another $100,000 in television rights brought the total to a record for a non-heavyweight bout. Bobo's share of all this was 35%. On good-natured impulse, he took a lei from his own neck and draped it over the neck of the startled Gavilan, then walked to his corner to await the opening bell...
...fighter, Bobo is somberly effective, if not flashy. Boring in steadily with a mixture of flicking lefts and chopping rights to the body, he set himself to close in and take the jumping-jack spring out of bouncy, flurry-punching Kid Gavilan. It was no easy matter. In the ninth round infighting, Olson butted Gavilan with his head, opened a cut on the Cuban's right cheekbone...
Boxing (Fri. 10 p.m., NBC). For the middleweight championship: Bobo Olson v. Kid Gavilan...