Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Officially, and beyond controversy . . ." Doug Hepburn is the 1953 world heavyweight weight-lifting champion-but not "the strongest man in the world...
...merely the idea of some Brockton sporting goods outfit, all well and good. But if Al Weill and the others who think for Rocky outside the ring really believe this-and intend to see it come true-there are going to be some badly butchered faces before the present heavyweight champion of the world retires undefeated...
...United Artists) retells the surefire old story of the worm who turns. Cabdriver John Payne is an ex-pug who gets his first brass-knuckle treatment from fate when an eye injury ends his boxing career just as he is on the brink of winning the world's heavyweight championship. In quick succession, he is deceived by his wife, played for a sucker by an aspiring actress (Evelyn Keyes), unjustly accused of assault & battery, framed for murder, hammered to a pulp by one gangster, pistol-whipped by another, and shot by a third. Before it is too late, Payne...
...stir on Stockholm's streets. Ignoring the dangerous Swedish girls, he immediately set to practicing the two-hands championship lifts-the press, snatch, and clean and jerk.* Last week his big moment came. Hepburn faced the gargantuan defending world champion, Brooklyn's John Davis, in the heavyweight class (lifter's own weight unlimited). Planting his feet and unlimbering his tremendous biceps, Doug reached his goal. With three lifts totaling 1,030¼ Ibs., he beat Runner-Up Davis, who raised 1,007 lbs. With a herculean press of 369 lbs., Doug had broken the world...
...outsize body draped in silk, Primo Camera took Hollywood Starlet Audrey Dalton by the hand and rolled his eyes for a soulful photograph. Camera, 44, the Italian giant (6 ft. 6½ in., 280 Ibs.) who was promoted all the way up to the world's heavyweight championship in the 1930s, had turned his acting talents to the movies after a moneymaking postwar wrestling career, is currently performing (but not starring) in Casanova's Big Night and Prince Valiant. To make things complete, he and his Italian wife have just picked up their U.S. citizenship papers...