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Marriage Revealed. Ezzard Charles, 29, world heavyweight boxing champion; and his longtime friend, Gladys ("Gee Gee") Gartrell, 22, onetime elevator operator; on Dec. 30, 1949; in New Kensington, Pa. Also revealed: the birth (on Feb. 13) of their first child, a daughter. Name: Deborah. Weight...
...title fight was recognized in 47 states (New York excepted) by the National Boxing Association. *The champions: Heavyweight Ezzard Charles, Light-Heavyweight Maxim, Middleweight Robinson, Welterweight Bratton, Lightweight Ike Williams, Featherweight Sandy Saddler. South Africa's Vic Toweel, a white man, holds the bantamweight title, and Hawaii's Dada Marino the flyweight...
...Manhattan, Heavyweight Rex Layne, 22, over Bob Satterfield, by an eight-round knockout, to make clumsy, hard-punching Layne the newest member of the I-want-a-shot-at-Ezzard-Charles club...
...Ezzard Charles retained his world heavyweight champion's title as he won a unanimous 15 round decision from Jersey Joe Walcott in Detroit last night. It was 37-year-old Walcott's fourth try at the title...
Boxing (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS radio & TV). Ezzard Charles v. Joe Walcott...