Word: champions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ring-wise fight fans took it for granted that Welterweight Champion Carmen Basilio would have a rough night at the Boston Garden. If Challenger Tony DeMarco stayed on his feet for 15 rounds-so the speculation went-home-town officials would give him the title. All afternoon before the bout, odds on the champ dropped accordingly. By fight time, the price was 6 to 5. Basilio's handlers filed an angry beef with the Massachusetts Boxing Commission. "What gives?" wailed Co-Manager Johnny de John. "My boy is getting a bum deal...
...champion's corner, only Basilio himself seemed unconcerned. The one-time onion farmer from Canastota, N.Y. had taken the title away from DeMarco with a twelfth-round technical knockout last June; he saw no reason why he could not do as well again...
...Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, CAB Chief Rizley has done a notable job cleaning up CAB's backlog of cases. He has also worked to liberalize the regulations governing irregular air carriers to enable them to better compete with established airlines. President Eisenhower also reappointed Democrat Joseph Adams, another champion of competition, as CAB vice chairman...
Henry Regnery has published a spate of works by such right-wing authors as William F. Buckley Jr., Chesly Manly, Louis Budenz, William Henry Chamberlain and Freda Utley. He seems to act as a magnet for those who hate Roosevelt, champion Joe McCarthy, attack unlimited academic freedom and take a dim view of the U.N. On the whole, he finds himself aligned with his authors' opinions, but he rarely hobnobs with right-wing VIPs. He sees himself as the champion of outcast authors, charges other publishers with deliberately ignoring books that express a far-right point of view. "It wouldn...
CHICAGO, Dec. 10--Sugar Ray Robinson exploded a terrific barrage and finished with a vicious right uppercut to knock out champion Bobo Olson in 2:51 of the second round in a middleweight title bout at the Chicago Stadium tonight...