Word: heavyweight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...coached in the art of taking a dive, and in the scene from the original, in which he decided that he is "through with all that running" from death, the part of Ole Andreson was naturally and credibly managed by Amateur Actor Ingemar Johansson, world's heavyweight champion...
Died. Maximilian Adelbert Baer, 50, perpetually clowning prizefighter who won 66 out of 80 fights (51 knockouts) by haphazard training and a walloping right, delighted in knocking out Nazi Germany's prize sportsman Max Schmeling in 1933, won the world's heavyweight championship from Primo Camera in 1934 but lost it a year later to James J. Braddock, went to Hollywood where in movies, radio and TV he capitalized on his fighting career; of a heart attack; in Hollywood...
Buick Electra Playhouse (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Another adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's famed short story, The Killers, featuring World Heavyweight Champion Ingemar Johansson as the ex-heavyweight fighter and Dane Clark as a gunman hired...
...trial had barely begun when Carbo startled the courtroom by throwing in the towel. He admitted that he was the undercover manager for Welterweight Pug Jim Peters in one fight, and that he had been the real power behind the stable ostensibly managed by Hymie ("The Mink") Wallman (Heavyweight Alex Miteff, Featherweight Ike Chestnut). More damning yet was Carbo's admission that he had been the behind-the-scenes matchmaker for the welterweight title elimination fight in March 1958 between Virgil Akins and Isaac Logart...
Show of the Month (CBS, 8:30-10 p.m.) An old standby, Body and Soul. Ex-Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey, as technical adviser, will try to make Ben Gazzara look like the middleweight champion of the world...