Word: champ
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Hewlett led for the first mile in last week's IC4A race, pacing even Villanova's Vic Zwolak, who went to to win. Hewlett faded to eleventh toward the end of the five-mile course, but in East Lansing, Mich., today the Big Three champ faces only a four mile jaunt...
...Television and those Petticoated Hillbillies, Lucys and Andy Griffiths are the fundamental money spin ners. The second national Nielsen report came out last week, demonstrating that CBS was still the national champ-for the 56th week...
Ernie's next fight should be with journeyman Doug Jones, the number-two contender who lost a controversial decision to Cassius in Madison Square Garden last Spring. Jones, however, maintains hope for a shot at the champ and will soon fight unranked Alex Koskowits instead, to avoid a further blemish on his record. Jones enthusiasts--and they are scarce--point out that at 185 their boy is no lighter than Marciano or Dempsey when he took the title. But then, Jones is no Marciano. Marciano probably would have lasted no more than ten with Liston, and as for Dempsey...
Eddle Machen, who once managed to backpeddle for 15 rounds with Liston, has been unranked since his recent emergence from a mental hospital. And that brings us to Floyd Patterson. The former champ, victor over such ring luminaries as Tom McNeeley, Brian London, Pete Rademacher, and Roy Harris is now looking for fights with the likes of Billy Daniels and Henry Cooper. The only real difference between Floyd the champ and Floyd the number-seven contender is that he now has to go the bums rather than letting them come to him. And that is a difference. Even for those...
...attribution" basis, they talked frankly and fully about what they know and think and expect. After thus tapping the flow of political thought, the dozens of correspondents working on the assignment filed their reports to TIME editorial headquarters in New York. There, Writer Ed Magnuson and Senior Editor Champ Clark analyzed and studied the evidence in detail and in sum. From it emerged some clear and fascinating patterns, outlined in the state-by-state survey in THE NATION this week, to provide an early-in-season guide to next year's political campaign...