Word: heavyweight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cauliflowers through the sweaty jungles of prizefighting, he has learned to use the language as effectively as a Sixth Avenue pitchman. Out of his rowdy-ringside wisdom he has fashioned some fine tigers, e.g., Lightweight Billy ("The Fargo Express") Petrolle. Sometimes he has taken a tame tabby, such as Heavyweight Harry ("Kid") Matthews, and conned the public into believing he was a killer. With either breed of cat, Hurley has promoted many a rapid dollar...
...whitened his hair and the nervous agonies of his trade have given Hurley ulcers. In the past two years he has taken Matthews, his managerial masterpiece, to New York to see him flattened by Rocky Marciano, and home to Seattle to watch him taking a licking from British Heavyweight Champion Don Cockell. A lesser man might have given up. Hurley was undaunted. Last month he arrived in London with Matthews in tow, and announced with infinite gall that his tabby could knock over Cockell...
...Heavyweight Championship (Thurs. 10 p.m., ABC). Rocky Marciano v. Ezzard Charles...
Person to Person (Fri. 10:30 p.m., CBS). Ed Murrow visits the training camps of Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano and Challenger Ezzard Charles...
Tommy ("Hurricane") Jackson is a burly (192½ Ibs.) young (22) Negro who loves to fight. Hurricane also loves his mother. And like any man with two loves, Hurricane has known trouble. This spring he put his promising heavyweight record (16 wins, one loss, one draw) on the line against a light-punching light heavyweight named Jimmy Slade. The big wind dwindled to a spring breeze. Tommy lost a ten-round decision and got so flustered that he blamed it all on mom. "I'm glad I lost," he said. "My mother kept telling me when...