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Born. To Floyd Patterson, 21, and Sandra Elizabeth Hicks Patterson, 18: their first child, a daughter, four hours and 23 minutes before Boxer Patterson anesthetized creaky old Archie Moore to become heavyweight champ (see SPORT) ; in New York City. Name: Seneca. Weight...
Teleplaywright Serling, 31, an ex-amateur boxer himself. He did not intend, he says, for Requiem simply to daub tar and feathers on the fight game-"I tried to dramatize the rejection of a human being by a segment of society. It could have been played out against any background at all." One of the medium's most prolific authors (ico-odd plays), Serling is serving TV (at a record $7,500 a script) some of the most tightly constructed, trenchant lines it has yet spoken. "I love TV," he confesses, "but writing is mostly just fighting discouragement. Sponsor...
Duffy's is the only banter. There is no skylarking; this is grim business. Almost every player wears a reminder of just how rugged Big Ten football can be. Peaks runs with a brace on one knee; a leather wristlet, nearly as heavy as a Roman boxer's cestus, supports the thick right wrist of Sophomore Jerry McFarland, a Negro tackle out of Alabama. Tackle Pat Burke lisps through the gap where most of his front teeth once stood...
Scoring more as a boxer's point than a slugger's blow, Medicine Show adds to Levine's steady advance as an artist who bucks the current abstract trend. By moving his subject matter outdoors and placing it under a blue sky, he has tackled a multitude of problems concealed in the murk of his previous nightclubs, restaurants and courtroom scenes. Like Levine's other major works. Medicine Show almost certainly will end up as a prize museum catch. Probable price: over...
...Pittsburgh one day in the late 19205, a tall, weedy college student named Nnamdi Azikiwe (commonly known as "Zik") learned that Boxer Jackie Zivic was looking for sparring partners. Fired with a sudden ambition, Zik offered his services. "They knocked me around so much," he recalled years later, "that I gave it up." Audacious tries and rough comeuppances are characteristic of Zik's dashing career...