Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hard for most viewers to understand why all the fuss about one bullfighter. As the show's Co-Scriptwriter Barnaby Conrad has often said before, Manolete was a slight man of grace, warmth and gentle humor outside the ring; but as played by Actor Jack (Requiem for a Heavyweight) Palance, he was awkward, humorless and uncommonly large in his baggy traje de luces. When Palance was not glooming about the bulls and that other, more ferocious enemy-the crowd-he was busy swilling expensive hooch ("We'd pay through the nose for this," he says) or displaying...
...Labor Rackets investigation. New York Lawyer John Cye Cheasty swore that Hoffa hired him to spy on the committee's investigative work. When Hoffa was arrested and tried on bribery and conspiracy charges before a jury of eight Negroes and four whites, Hoffa's good "friend," ex-Heavyweight Boxing Champion Joe Louis, made a conspicuous show of himself in the courtroom. During the trial John Cheasty noted a recurrent Hoffa action. Jimmy, he said, would wait till the jury's eyes were turned from him, then raise a hand as if to rub his neck. Cheasty...
...apple-knocker from the Yakima Valley let loose a looping right, and it caught the champion, high on the cheek. For four satisfying seconds, the thin crowd in Seattle's Sick's Stadium sensed that it might be getting its money's worth. There was World Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson on the canvas. Perhaps this amateur challenger named T. Peter Rademacher had a professional punch after all. It was all so surprising that Referee Tommy Loughran was as flustered as Floyd. He forgot to count...
...have a ball." But Paar's low-toned impudence and highhanded wit often came off engagingly. Reading off late news bulletins, he announced deadpan that Kathryn Murray, the indefatigable hostess of The Arthur Murray Party (TIME, July 22), "will not fight Floyd Patterson for the heavyweight championship of the world." He ribaldly admired the way Golfer Louise Suggs "drops her shorts on each green" and suggested to Hollywood Composer Dimitri Tiomkin some popular lyrics for new movies: "You are a mess, you are my Sweet Smell of Success"; "The day they hanged my daddy, mother was just A Face...
...took Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson less than three minutes to convince every fight fan in the Polo Grounds that his match with Tommy ("Hurricane") Jackson was a wretched mismatch. A pathetic primitive with an awesome capacity for absorbing punishment, Hurricane started leaking blood in the first round and was on his knees at the bell. He went down again in the second, again in the ninth. In between, he did some calisthenics, tried a few yards of roadwork to "unlazy" his legs and continued to catch Floyd's furious punches. Midway in the tenth round, Referee Ruby Goldstein called...