Word: bout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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York or London), has neither heavy punch nor box-office drawing power. Last week, as they faced each other in Buffalo's Memorial Auditorium, the fans stayed away in droves; paid attendance (6,298) and receipts ($28,666) were the lowest ever for a heavyweight championship bout...
Until the fight, 29-year-old Charles had been hoping to claim a big share of the purse in his bout next month with aging (36) Joe Louis, who will come out of retirement to pay off his income-tax debts. But the unimpressive win over Beshore quashed Charles's hopes. In the Sept. 27 match. Louis will get 35% of the purse, Charles a mere 20%, thus making him the first champion to take the short end of the money in a title fight...
...before the Bundestag was a three-month-old invitation to Western Germany to join the Council of Europe. Still weak from a bout with the grippe, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer made his points a little wearily, like a grandfather repeating a self-evident lesson. Said he: "I do not think that the Western Allies will regard a refusal to enter the Council of Europe as a mark of our friendly approach . . . The Council of Europe is a first attempt to unite Western Europe as a federation. If the Federal Republic refuses to participate, the Council of Europe is finished...
Very Sassy. The man responsible for the murky brown medicine is Louisiana's plump State Senator Dudley J. LeBlanc, 56, who had to rustle up a new business after he made the mistake of running for governor in 1932 against a Huey Long candidate. Recovering from a bout of rheumatism when his doctors gave him vitamin B-complex, LeBlanc saw that there was money as well as health in vitamins. He boned up on the subject by reading at home, decided that vitamins would be better if mixed with minerals...
Sugar Ray Robinson is rated a 1 to 4 favorite to beat Robert Villemain in a middleweight bout in Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium tonight. The winner will be world's champion as far as Pennsylvania is concerned...