Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Better Conditioned. For all their troubles, the Krasnoe Znamia crew, Russia's heavyweight eight, did well enough in the first heats of the race for the Grand Challenge Cup. In their borrowed shell, they came home half a length ahead of Jesus College, Cambridge. Next they raced the Vancouver Rowing Club (the University of British Columbia's varsity eight). The Canadians, too, had been delayed by the strike. Moreover, half their crew had come down with nasty skin infections. This was their first race of the regatta...
Slimmed down from his normal bulk to a trim 175, Light-Heavyweight Boxing Champion Archie Moore was a good big man, able but ancient (38). Up from 160 Ibs., to an overblown 170, Middleweight Champion Carl ("Bobo") Olson, 26, was a good little man, ambitious but amenable. One steamy evening last week, 27,431 fans plunked down $206,784 at New York's Polo Grounds to learn whether Challenger Olson, no knockout specialist, could outlast 2-to-1 Favorite Moore. After 19 hectic years in the ring, 143 professional bouts, Moore had already designated (in paid newspaper...
Later, on the fringe of the hubbub in jubilant Winner Moore's dressing room, bigtime pugilism's Monopolist James D. Norris, boss of the International Boxing Club, held court. He allowed that a heavyweight title match, Moore v. Marciano, this fall was not such a bad idea...
...first Russo-American athletic contest since the end of World War II gave six U.S. musclemen of assorted sizes a chance to flex their biceps for a friendly and admiring audience. Appropriately enough, it was Heavyweight Paul Anderson who made the biggest hit. The 22-year-old titan from Toccoa. Ga. looked for all the world like a living caricature of Humphrey Pennyworth, the comic-strip strongman. Here in the flesh was the giant of a capitalist fairy tale. Almost as wide as he is high (5 ft. 10 in., 340 Ibs.), Anderson toyed with the big bar bells...
Married. Clara King Stribling, 48, widow of W. L. ("Young") Stribling, Georgia's onetime perennial heavyweight boxing title contender who died following a motorcycle crash in 1933; and the Rt. Rev. Randolph Claiborne, 48, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta; she for the second time, he for the first; in Marietta...