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Died. Johnny Dundee, 71, onetime world featherweight boxing champion, the crowd-pleasing "Scotch Wop" (he grew up as Giuseppe Carrora in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen) who danced and jabbed his way through 321 professional bouts in 22 years, outpointing France's Eugene Criqui for the title in 1923, only to resign it one year later when he could no longer stay within the 126-lb. weight limit, finishing his career as a lightweight in 1932; of pneumonia; in East Orange...
...boxing, American featherweight Charlie Brown and lightweight Ron Harris joined two teammates in the semi-finals. One American yacht led in its event with one race remaining, one was second, and three others were third...
Weightlifter Isacca Berger finished second in the featherweight division to complete the United States' accumulation of medals...
Beyond the Point. In San Francisco, the local CBS station was flooded with 7,000 more phone calls than it could handle. They came from listeners who wanted to join a discussion program on civil rights questions. In Columbus, sheriff's deputies practiced mob control by hurling featherweight plastic "bricks" at one another. In Chicago, housewives suddenly cut out their weekday visits to Lincoln Park Zoo and instead began going in groups to Lake Michigan's beaches because they feared attacks by marauding Negroes...
Despite the predictable foolishness of a plot that further synopsis would condemn, Bride is an amiable featherweight entertainment, mostly because its cast has buoyant appeal. Masquerading as the frontier wilderness of Montana circa 1890, California's High Sierra country fills the wide screen with some breathtaking acreage that no TV oat opera can duplicate. Actor Ebsen seems an authentic embodiment of covered wagon grit. And though Dullea's bad boy characterization scarcely conceals that he is easily redeemable-a sort of boor next door-his warm, fresh, quietly persuasive scenes with Actress Nettleton recall his vivid debut...