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Word: boxers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although not concerned in the case, filed by Negro boxer Joe Dorsey, the Sugar Bowl could be the chief beneficiary of the ruling...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Law Against Integrated Athletics Invalidated in Sugar Bowl Case; Judge Calls Sullivan Not Guilty | 11/29/1958 | See Source »

Cesare Siepi, 34, bass. Born in Milan, Siepi started out to be a boxer, switched to singing during the war, was brought to the U.S. by the Met's Bing. An excellent actor, he is particularly effective in the roles of such sorrowing old men as Boris and Don Carlo's Philip II, has also won acclaim for his Don Giovanni and The Barber's Basilio. His resonant, warm bass and trim good looks make him the leading contender for Ezio Pizza's place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: THE MET'S BIG MEN | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

Alton Erickson, supervisor of the boxing and wrestling division of the Texas Bureau of Labor Statistics, announced Charles' suspension yesterday. It followed a six-round knockout of the Cincinnati boxer by Donnie Fleeman in Dallas Monday night...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Kid Bassey Gets Nod Over Costa | 11/1/1958 | See Source »

...with dope tablets; Maverick found it, ate the meat, left the pellets on the ground. They mapped out the streets he used, staked themselves out in concealment with lassos, but Maverick, 80 Ibs. of muscle and speed, trotted new avenues. They even set out a trap baited with a boxer bitch in heat, but Maverick and the bitch tore the trap apart and loped happily off together to the hills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANIMALS: Maverick & the Hunt | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

...Four libel suits were filed against him for a total of $175,000; Dunn won two and the other two were dropped. Voices on the phone snapped, "Lay off the clubs or I'll kill you." In 1955 Dunn was blackjacked. A few days later, an ex-Marine boxer told him that he had been offered $500 by the chief of police to give him a beating. At the trial of the police chief (on a charge of soliciting a person to commit a felony), Brother Richard Kellam handled the defense. The Kellam-backed commonwealth's attorney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Amateur Editor | 7/21/1958 | See Source »

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