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...March 1923 - exactly 50 years ago. Boxer Gene Tunney had just won the light-heavyweight title at Madison Square Garden, while in California, Prohibitionists were battling to close the Mexican border to thirsty tourists. In Europe preparations were under way for Italy's first skyscraper. It was with these and other stories that TIME The Weekly Newsmagazine first appeared...
...Boxer Joe Frazier started off the 50-meter swim with a spectacular belly flop. Furiously flailing away but going nowhere, Smokin' Joe surfaced long enough to sputter, "I quit!" Afterward, he panted: "It was like I was throwin' punches at the water and the water kept hittin' back. My big aim was to keep from drownin'." The Cincinnati Reds' Johnny Bench was a more serious competitor in the golf tournament. But two drives into a mangrove swamp erased his early lead and he finished second to Stefanich, who posted a 41 for the nine-hole...
AFTER A SERIES of wholly unmemorable fights, the keepers of the boxer's temple proclaimed Joe Frazier the new emperor of Fat City, but the emperor had no clothes...
That Demon, as it happens, took the form of George Foreman last week in Kingston. Until this fight, Foreman was best known as the boxer who waved a miniature U.F. Flag after he won the heavyweight gold medal at the Olympics in Mexico City, Coming soon after the black gloved salute given by John Carlos and Tommy Smith during the playing of the national anthem in an earlier awards ceremony, Foreman's gesture received much praise from those troubled by the "black power" movement in sports. They interpreted Foreman's flag as a sterling sign of patriotism and a rebuke...
...Brando projects him, Paul is a battered veteran of the Romantic Rebel battalion, a former boxer and actor, a man who has been getting the short end of the stick for so long that he has turned it into a bludgeon. He rages contemptuously at the civilization that baffles and frustrates him; yet he remains achingly vulnerable to it. His affair with Jeanne is a last desperate attempt to strip down to a pure, basic reality that he can understand-sex without love, even without identities. "We don't need names here," he decrees...