Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pounds will be Bob Eastling, while Rick Sullivan will hold the 167 spot. Bob Foster at 177 and either Tom Francis or Dan Leary at heavyweight will round out the lineup...
Showman Billy Rose wrote: "A heart-warming salute and an endearing one." Retired Heavyweight Champion Gene Tunney seconded Rose's sentiment with a telegram: "Louis, that TIME article is the finest I have ever seen...
...back in the days of the thirties when the Crimson boxing team was defeating most everybody around, Harvard sprouted many intercollegiate champs. There was Brad Simmons, heavyweight of the 1935 team, who had the reputation of never letting his man get beyond the first round. Then there was Bill Smith, who fought in three classes and preferred beating heavyweights, although he weighed only 165 pounds...
Lamar was no mean boxer when he came to the College as official coach of the newly established boxing team in 1931. Coming from the University of Virginia, he twice won the heavyweight title of the National A.A.U...
Jackson Pollock, at 43 the bush-bearded heavyweight champion of abstract expressionism, shuffled into the ring at Manhattan's Sidney Janis Gallery, and flexed his muscles for the crowd with a retrospective show covering 15 years of his career. The exhibition stretched back to the time when Pollock was imitating imitations of Picasso, reached a climax with the year 1948, when Pollock first conceived the idea of dripping and sloshing paint from buckets onto vast canvases laid flat on the floor. Once the canvases were hung upright, what gravity had accomplished came to look like the outpouring of Herculean...