Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Welterweight (5 ft. 4 in., 140 Ibs.) Publisher Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, 86, came out on the wrong end of an impromptu brawl with a heavyweight visitor to his Manhattan office. The intruder: his son Berwyn, 30, a physically cultured brute (6 ft., 190 Ibs.) who blamed his father for causing him to lose his job as a dancing instructor. The elder Macfadden's version: "He came into my office with blood in his eye, and . . . before I knew what was happening, he slapped my face and hit me." Berwyn's story: "He tried to shoot...
Onetime World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jack Dempsey, 59, popped up in Buenos Aires on his first visit to the Argentine, where he was greeted by President Juan Perón (in whose honor, as "the world's first sportsman," a boxing festival was being staged) and an old ring foe, Argentina's Luis Angel ("The Wild Bull of the Pampas") Firpo. Argentines have always believed that Firpo, who lost the 1923 fight by a k.o. in the second round after Dempsey knocked him down nine times, really won it in the first, when he smashed Dempsey clean through...
...first round. Challenger Ezzard Charles jolted the heavyweight champion with a right uppercut. Rocky Marciano lowered his head, and an irritated scowl flickered across his splayed features. Then, unperturbed, Rocky plodded back into the fight. He had taken the challenger's best punch; Charles was already a beaten boxer...
...Buenos Aires to take part in a sports festival honoring Argentina's President Juan Peron: onetime World's Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey...
Championship Boxing (Wed. 10.30 p.m., CBS). Rocky Marciano v. Ezzard Charles, for the heavyweight title...