Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prizefighters Max Baer (onetime world's heavyweight champion) and Maxie Rosenbloom (onetime world's light-heavyweight champion), in Hollywood to co-star in a series of slapstick detective comedies, clownishly announced that "we have been saving our art for a major vehicle . . . We may become as inseparable as the Lunts...
...Rome, Boxer-turned-Cinemactor Buddy (Jacob Jr.) Baer, hulking (6 ft. 6½ in.) brother of ex-Heavyweight Champ Max Baer, came out second best in a tussle with the King of Beasts. Passing by a lion's cage on the set of MGM's Quo Vadis, Buddy scarcely had time to duck when a big paw shot through the bars, ripped his shirt from shoulder to waist, clawed an inch-deep gash in his left...
...Communist invaders from North Korea last week reaped the harvest of tactical surprise, of crushing superiority in weapons. The spectacle was the sickening one of a heavyweight punching around a wispy little man who has just got up from a sickbed. The situation, though grim, was not hopeless. At week's end, the little man had powerful friends hurrying to his side...
Married. Marva Trotter, 34, former wife of retired Heavyweight Champ Joe Louis; and Dr. Albert Lee Spaulding, 30, internal medicine specialist; in Chicago...
...mighty hard sport to picture convincingly. Prizefighting, where the action is limited to two men under brilliant light, does better, and the best painting in the show was George Bellows' classic one of Firpo knocking Dempsey through the ropes. Nineteenth Century standouts were engravings of the great Australian heavyweight, Peter Jackson, and of a bearded speedster named William Howitt...