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Word: heavyweights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago ring for a fight with Welterweight Champion Kid Gavilan. Businessman Bobo should have been fairly well pleased. An audience of 18,582 fans had paid a whopping $334,730 at the gate. Another $100,000 in television rights brought the total to a record for a non-heavyweight bout. Bobo's share of all this was 35%. On good-natured impulse, he took a lei from his own neck and draped it over the neck of the startled Gavilan, then walked to his corner to await the opening bell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hawaiian Businessman | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

...another fight last week, television fans and 4,200 jampacked customers in a Brooklyn skating rink caught a short glimpse of an up-and-coming heavyweight who throws such a whirlwind of punches that he is nicknamed "Hurricane" Tommy Jackson, 22, a product of the Georgia cotton fields who carries a Bible with him although he cannot read, whipsawed Dan Bucceroni, third-ranked heavyweight, into helplessness in six rounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hawaiian Businessman | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

...months of professional fighting (16 victories, one loss, one draw), Hurricane Jackson has put on 20 Ibs., now stands a strapping 6 ft. 2½ in., 192 Ibs., and is still growing. Former Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey, a ringside witness of Jackson's butchering of Bucceroni, appraised Jackson's prospects: "With experience, he'll be a great fighter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Hawaiian Businessman | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

...their resemblance to the comic-strip characters. Robert Wagner, in a pageboy wig and leather buskins, is Prince Val stepping off the page. Janet Leigh, in a palomino peruke, makes a pretty Aleta, James Mason a swart and athletic villain. A couple of vikings, Victor McLaglen and former Heavyweight Champ Primo Camera, with their grunting and spluttering through chin-wigs, give a show that can only be matched by the Wednesday-night wrestling on television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 12, 1954 | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

...verbal slugfest with the Eisenhower Administration, Joseph Raymond McCarthy, the onetime Marquette University light-heavyweight boxer, had taken a solid punch on the jaw. Last week Senator McCarthy's committee colleagues moved in to separate the assailants. Taking advantage of the bell, Slugger McCarthy took off as scheduled on a Midwestern speaking tour, hoping that a change of pace and of subject would help him recover from damage done by the Army's chronicle of the case of Private David Schine. But the bell came too late to avert physical exhaustion: two days later Joe McCarthy was stricken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Between Rounds | 3/29/1954 | See Source »

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