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...dance, you gotta pay the piper. Believe me, I danced and I paid, and I left him a big fat tip." His dance was a flat-footed shuffle and a blur of powerful arms, and payment was eventual poverty and emotional problems. In the ring, the Brown Bomber was an impassive menace who revealed neither hatred nor benevolence. But from the first time he fought until his death last week of a heart attack at 66, he remained a victim of the pungent, half-lit world of the fight game...
...Muhammad Ali on television, "When I was champion, I went on what they called the bum-of-the-month tour." "You mean I'm a bum?" Ali asked. "You woulda been on the tour," Louis deadpanned. Many experts who saw both men in their prime agree that the Bomber would have whupped the Greatest. Even Ali, who remained strangely silent about Louis' death, concurs. As he tearfully told TIME last week, "Joe Louis was my inspiration. I idolized him. He wrote the book on boxing-the way he stood, the way he blocked shots was beautiful. I just...
DIED. Joe Louis, 66, the legendary "Brown Bomber" who held the World Heavyweight boxing championship for nearly twelve years; of a heart attack; in Las Vegas (see SPORT...
...largest new weapons system in the Reagan defense plan will be the $25 billion program to develop and build a new manned bomber to replace the vintage B-52s. Three and a half years ago, President Carter killed plans for such a plane, when he scrapped the B1, which was being built by Rockwell International. But the company will be back in the bidding for the new bomber with a modified design of the B1, now renamed the LRCA for Long Range Combat Aircraft. The Air Force is also considering a stretched version of the General Dynamics...
Called the Brown Bomber for his punch and a string of knockouts. Louis was 23 when he first won the championship by knocking out 31-year-old James J. Braddock in the eighth round in Chicago...