Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...states, e.g., Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington (not without presidential hopes himself), Rhode Island Governor Dennis Roberts, Pittsburgh Mayor and Democratic Leader David Lawrence. After dinner at Manhattan's "21," De Sapio hustled all his guests off to ringside seats (top price, $40) at the Marciano-Moore heavyweight championship fight in Yankee Stadium...
...took World Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano nine rough rounds of wild and frantic slugging at New York's Yankee Stadium to dispose of his ancient (38) and honorable challenger, Light Heavyweight Champion Archie Moore...
...Eisenhower has also shown that he is a capable and effective executive, a war hero who successfully exchanged his military cap for a diplomatic homberg. Even his harshest critics have generally limited themselves to mild attacks: that although Eisenhower may be a fine fellow he is no intellectual heavyweight, that he is an "old man," that he is a reflection of the prosperous times rather than the cause...
...whistle stops and the tank towns are behind him. He earned his crack at the light-heavyweight title and won it from Joey Maxim; he knocked off Bobo Olson (TIME, July 4) and won a shot at Rocky Marciano, the heavyweight champ. At 38, after 20 years in the ring, he is ready for that real fight...
This is also the brightest excuse for a heavyweight training camp since Max Schmeling got ready for Young Stribling in the summer of 1931 right in the middle of an undertakers' convention at Conneaut Lake Park, Pa. Archie seems interested in everything but boxing. He does not tire of driving through town showing off his blue yachting cap ("It lends an impression that you own a yacht"), and his red Ford Thunderbird ("I think a sport should have a sport...