Word: brawlers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Boxer." Despite his unquestioned ability and the success of his European tour, Ray Robinson is neither the world's richest fighter nor its most popular. For one thing, even at a time when such a club-fighting brawler as Rocky Graziano was drawing $100,000 gates, Robinson had trouble lining up opponents good enough, or foolish enough, to step into the same ring with him. For another, U.S. crowds, always preferring a slugger to a boxer, were almost bored by his cold, businesslike perfection in the ring. "I'm a boxer," says Robinson, "not a fighter...
...after 17 spectacular years in the Texas oilfields, he looks like nothing so much as a Hollywood version of a Mississippi River gambler-a moody and monolithic male with a dark, Civil War mustache, a cold and acquisitive eye, and a brawler's shoulder-swinging walk. He affects dark glasses, wears a diamond ring as big as a dime on one rocklike fist, and on the flat Texas highways drives his royal blue Cadillac at 100 m.p.h., often with a whiskey bottle at his side. He likes to shoot craps at $1,000 a throw, and has a longshoreman...