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Kenneth S. Wagner North Braddock...
...Louis, 66, the "Brown Bomber," one of the best heavyweights ever, whose thunderous punch leveled the likes of James J. Braddock, Billy Conn and Tony Galento. In a memorable vengeance match with racist overtones that was over in a lightning 2 min. 4 sec. of the first round, he crushed Germany's Max Schmeling in 1938. As champ from 1937 to 1949, he defended his title a record 25 times, but never pocketed the monster purses common today and spent years in debt...
That was a good deal kinder than the night Bessie Braddock M.P. berated Churchill for being drunk. Churchill replied that in the morning he would be sober, but she would still be ugly...
...Alabama sharecropper, Louis quit school as a teen-ager in Detroit to help support a hungry family. But after capturing the A.A.U. title in 1934, he amazed the pros by winning 34 fights, earning some $500,000 and taking the championship from James J. Braddock -all in three years. He did not waste words, either: "As soon as I catch 'em, I put 'em to sleep." When critics doubted that he could take the lighter, classier Billy Conn in 1941, Louis observed, "He can run, but he can't hide...
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...