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Match's elaborate picture coverage includes everything from picture articles on the Ezzard Charles-Rocky Marciano fight and Cinemactress Dawn Addams to French colonial troubles in Tunisia. Says Publisher Prouvost curtly: "We put out magazines for the average Frenchman...
...Milton Berle, Life of Riley (another newcomer), Godfrey and His Friends, Our Miss Brooks and Toast of the 'Town (newcomer). Missing from the list this year: Your Show of Shows, Comedy Hour, What's My Line? ¶ From New York the Rocky Marciano-Ezzard Charles heavyweight-championship fight (see SPORT) was telecast on a closed circuit to 61 theaters in 45 cities-the largest number of outlets since theater TV began. Despite the price of tickets ($2.75 up) and the fact that the fight was carried on radio, approximately 200,000 theater customers turned...
...heavyweight champion of the world was off his feed. There were long faces at the Catskill Mountain training camp where Rocky Marciano was getting ready for his fight with Challenger Ezzard Charles. In that green corner of the "Borscht Belt," most men are measured by the size of their appetites. Rocky, ordinarily a first-rate trencherman, was pushing away from the breakfast table after downing only two eggs and a pair of lamb chops. To make matters worse...
Neither Jake's ready tongue nor Ezzard's health impressed the bookies. Rocky's eating habits bothered them not at all. Right up to fight-time at Yankee Stadium last week, most of those itinerant investment bankers saw the champ as a sure winner. They were giving odds of "3-to-1 and out," i.e., they would cover bets on ex-Champion Charles at the quoted odds; they would accept no Marciano money...
Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow visits the training camps of Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano and Challenger Ezzard Charles...