Word: champion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MARY MARTIN AT EASTERTIME WITH THE RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Gower (Hello, Dolly!) Champion directs Mary (Hello, Dolly!) Martin as the spirit of spring, a nun, a Rockette and a magician. Goodbye, Radio City...
Cassius Clay could not floor, stagger, seriously hurt challenger George Chuvalo in Toronto last night, but the heavyweight champion jabbed his way to a unanimous 15-round decision anyway...
...exciting bout with a plenitude of punches for the 9,000 spectators at Maple Leaf Gardens and the 38-closed-circuit audiences who saw the Louisville champion extended 15 rounds for the first time. Chuvalo landed solid blows with the left to Clay's body and jaw in several rounds, but Clay outpunched the Canadian by a wide margin and drew blood from cuts around his puffed eyes...
This bout will probably be the last Ali ever fights while he is in his prime, and the champion is likely to put on a good show. Chuvalo is a boxer of the oak tree variety, and though he has never mounted a commendable offense, he does own the distinction of never having been knocked to the canvas...
...were the champion, I'd lie down in the first round. That would give boxing the glorious reputation it enjoyed before Cassius Clay fought Sonny Liston, and give the world a champion it can appreciate...