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...banging him up on the inside. All of a sudden, you're tired. He hits you some sharp raps. You're on the floor and so fogged up you can't get up." Barone was trying to explain how it happened last week that Heavyweight Champion Ezzard Charles had knocked him down & out for the first time in Nick's career of 53 professional fights...
...Ezzard Charles knocked out is the 11th round Nick Barone at Cincinnati last night and thus retained his world heavyweight championship before an estimated 12,000 fans...
Among those selected as the "best pajamaed males in the U.S. in 1950" (by pajama manufacturers): Vice President Alben Berkley, Dwight Eisenhower, Erroll Flynn, Ezzard Charles, Nelson Rockefeller, Leopold Stokowski...
...Roosevelt's own inexhaustible fund of chatty conversation and the glamour of her guests (some of the recent ones: Boxer Ezzard Charles, Cartoonist Al Capp, Minister Perle Mesta, Actress Tallulah Bankhead) have given the program a 2.7 Pulse rating against the 2.3 of her veteran rival Mary Margaret McBride. But what disconcerts many listeners is the drumfire of basic-English commercials, fead in pear-shaped Grotonese, with which the show is slittered. Mrs. Roosevelt may murmur to a distinguished guest: "And now I think Elliott would like to say something...
When Cincinnati's home-town boy, World Heavyweight Champ Ezzard Charles, 29, returned for a civic welcome, fans and friends were ready with a new crown of golden chrysanthemums. Said Charles, flashing a white smile, "It's swell to be back and thanks for everything...