Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Playhouse 90 (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., CBS). Rod Serling's Requiem for a Heavyweight, with Kim Hunter, Jack Palance...
Married. Archie Lee Moore, 42, mustached, jazz-playing light heavyweight champion, top heavyweight contender (since the retirement of Rocky Marciano, who flattened him in 1955) and part-time Model Joan Hardy, 24; he for the fourth time, she for the first; in Ensenada, Mexico...
Sagging ex-Heavyweight Champ Joe Louis, 42, hit a new snag in his game effort to wrestle his way out of the red, pay off a mountainous $1,210,789 in federal income-tax arrears (TIME, May 14). Examined by an Illinois Athletic Commission doctor, Wrestler Joe was found to have a "cardiac contusion," i.e., damage to the outer layer of his heart, possibly suffered when, as Louis recalled, he cracked three left ribs in a recent grappling match in Ohio. Upshot of the diagnosis: Louis, if his disability proves permanent, can never again wrestle in Illinois, will probably...
Chances are, the sellout crowd would have come anyway. Toronto's citizens are soft touches for sports; they would have packed the Maple Leafs' ballpark for a dog show-especially one that got the magnificent ballyhoo laid down for last week's hoked-up "world heavyweight championship" squabble. The figures: that elegant gypsy, Light Heavyweight Champion Archie Moore, and Canadian Heavyweight Champion James J. Parker, otherwise known as the Saskatoon Statue...
...even after the awesome sledgehammering he took from Rocky Marciano last September. Besides netting him a neat $51,975, the Parker fight served no tice that Archie Moore will be no push over when ex-Olympian Floyd Patterson, the hot young (21) pretender, fights him for the official world heavyweight title in September...