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...stock in public adoration or your press clippings. By the time I was 26, I'd heard crowds of 100,000 scream my name but a week later they couldn't remember who I was. You're a hero today and a bum tomorrow-hero to zero, I sometimes...
...crinkled sweater, a battered white hat and a floppy pair of pants with the bottoms turned up (see cut) appeared at the flossy Mandelieu course in Cannes, France, played a bit of golf, went home. One good reason startled club officials did not give the old fellow the bum's rush: he was the fabulously wealthy Aga Khan...
...They halted and served it to a hefty customer three seats off the aisle. Then came Squab under Glass, Caesar Salad, Cherries Jubilee (in flaming brandy). By the time Erskine Johnson had eaten his way to the check ($12.65), the audience was also fed up; it chorused, "Throw the bum...
Garrulous Jack ("Doc") Kearns, 67, knows how it feels to manage real champions; he handled both Jack Dempsey* and Mickey Walker. He dismisses all the big fellows fighting today with one word-"Bums"-but adds quickly that he is handling "the best bum of the lot." His bum is Light Heavyweight Joey Maxim (real name: Joseph Antonio Berardinelli), 26, a clever, stand-up boxer from Cleveland with a machine-gun left and an accurate right...
There are naturally weak links in Jordan's present team--they come at 155 and 165, where Butch has been troubled with injuries. Bum knees have forced Roger Wach and Tom Connors into noncombatant roles; the posts will probably be filled by two men chosen from among Charlie Keith, a capable 165er, Andre Sigourney, Neil Hastie, and Dick Edelman. Sigourney is good but not in shape, Hastie and Edelman are sophomores...