Word: heavyweight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guest of ample, agile Bessie Braddock, Labor M.P. from Liverpool, Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson turned up for a quiet session of Britain's House of Commons, and on his tour parried questions with the noncommittal skill of a Cabinet minister. What about attacks on boxing? "I wouldn't like to make any comment," said Floyd. "But don't you agree," asked Fight Fan Braddock, "that boxing for every physically fit boy gives him balance, judgment and sportsmanship?" Replied Patterson, after deep thought: "Definitely." Viewing the Thames, Visitor Patterson delivered a judgment on the great grey river that...
...Sandys replied by quoting the words of Clement Attlee, uttered when he led the Labor Opposition three years ago: "It is no use telling the Russians that we would not be the first to use a hydrogen bomb in a war . . . It would be as if I and a heavyweight champion boxer faced each other with revolvers, and I told him that I was'not going to be the first to fire. He would just say 'Splendid,' and put down his pistol and knock me for six with his fists." Said Sandys: "I really do not think...
...credit side for the varsity, John Watkins is the clear choice over Jacques deLabry at 130, as is Ted Robbins over Bill Cross at heavyweight...
...Philadelphia, not far from the scene of their first battle for the heavyweight boxing crown in 1926, Manassa Mauler Jack Dempsey, 62, and Gentleman Gene Tunney, 60, met again, looking remarkably well-preserved-and strikingly alike. They received plaques from the Brith Sholom lodge for "their notable achievements and outstanding contributions in the sports world and for devoted service to American youth." Pingponging compliments with the man who beat him twice in the ring, well-heeled Manhattan Restaurateur Dempsey turned to Millionaire...
Robert Ralph Young was a bantamweight scrapper (135 Ibs.) with heavyweight ideas, who came out of obscurity as a Wall Street speculator to become the most powerful and most debated railroad tycoon of his day. As board chairman of the New York Central, the nation's second biggest railroad, and an important voice in several other roads, Bob Young had collected all the prizes of a champion battler: wealth, power, glittering friends (the Duke and Duchess of Windsor et al.), palatial homes in Palm Beach and Newport...