Word: champs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newspaper in Chicago, where the heavyweight champ's wife has sued for divorce, appeared the following ad: "Not resp. for debts cont. by anyone but myself, Joe Louis Barrow, 550 E. 61st...
...Congressional investigation ("He apparently is engaged all the time in playing golf"). Illinois's Everett M. Dirksen said he did not know "whether public funds are to be expended so that grouchy, golfing old generals will develop a lot of sourpuss soldiers." Missouri's isolationist Senator Bennett Champ Clark called Ben Lear "a superannuated old goat, who ought to retire...
...purses (split 50-50 with his managers, after deducting training expenses). He owns $400,000 worth of real estate in Detroit and Chicago, has a $250,000 annuity, and has set up his kinfolk in various business enterprises. When he finally quits the ring, the Champ will retire to his 800-acre dude farm outside Detroit - "a place for my people"-which he hopes to turn into a profitable resort...
...Louis socked her twice, said high-styled Marva Trotter, suing for divorce. She also asked a cut of the $800,000 she says the Champ has salted away out of his $2,000,000 earnings (see p. 46). Joe denied everything. "We had arguments," he said, "but I thought them was settled. Lotsa married folks have 'em." Shortly Joe left for Chicago to try to settle this one. ∽∽ Meantime, Billy Conn, the almost-champ, pulled a sneak wedding to 19-year-old Mary Louise Smith, went into hiding at Promoter Mike Jacobs' home in Rumson...
Heavyweight Billy Conn, the almost-champ, took a $1,200 diamond ring on approval, promptly lost...