Word: heavyweight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Once upon a time a multimillionaire banker named H. (for Harmon) Spencer Auguste told his old friend, former Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey, that if Auguste were to die, Jack should take care of his handsome widow, Mrs. Estelle Auguste. When Auguste died four years ago at 74, Estelle, who has frequently been picked as one of the world's ten best-dressed women, inherited a reported $35 million. What Spencer Auguste had not foreseen, however, was that lots of men would find Estelle attractive, thus infringing on Jack's assignment. Only last week, for example, Estelle...
Rounding out the varsity upperweight sweep, sophomore Pete Morrison crushed Williams heavyweight Royce Redd so hard that he defaulted the match...
...came, California voted for Warren and never switched. In the campaign, Warren made only late, routine efforts for Ike, and he conspicuously snubbed his fellow Californian, Richard Nixon. Some Administration bigwigs were disappointed that they had not been able to choose a man who was more of a legal heavyweight. Said one White House aide: "Sure, we wanted a Charles Evans Hughes. But where the hell do you find...
Roland LaStarza, 26, a shifty boxer who went to college (C.C.N.Y.), had figured out, after a course of thoughtful study, just how he was going to beat Rocky Marciano to become heavyweight champion of the world. "I'm more muscular than Marciano, and I expect to move faster," he said. "I figure I can cut him up so that the referee will have to stop it!"* Rocky Marciano, 29, more of a cave than a college type, had less to say in advance. When the bell rang for the start of their 15-round experiment at the Polo Grounds...
...winning his 45th professional bout, his 40th by a knockout, Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano collected $187,000. It might be his last big check for a while. At the moment, nobody seemed to be able to think of a natural new challenger...