Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Simple Man. Charles Wilson, like the rest of his breed, is a simple man: a big, enormously strong fellow (6 ft. 2 in., 212 Ibs.) who looks and moves like an old heavyweight fighter lightly disguised by thick glasses and well-cut suits. There is little pretense about him, even as to appearance-he once was a heavyweight club fighter. He devotes himself, 12, 14, 18 hours a day, to business. He is a meat-and-potatoes-and-apple-pie man who smokes big cigars. He flies to "get there faster." Most of his weekends belong to his family...
...into trim for this week's fight with Cuban Heavyweight Omelio Agromonte, Joe Louis decided to sweat out his training schedule on a Miami beach. Along with him came two faithful fans: Joe Jr., 3, and daughter Jacqueline, 8, to play in the sand and watch papa make muscles...
...this point, Brown unleashed its fine middle and light-heavyweight representatives, who accounted for two decisions and one fall and gave the Bruins a 14 to 13 lead. With the outcome still depending on the heavyweight bout, Bruin Captain John Chernak rallied to decision Humphrey Heidtmann, who did not appear to have benefitted from an extended layoff and was not in the best of shape...
...Louis pounded out a unanimous ten-round decision over Omelio Agramonte of Cuba in Miami last night to clear another readblock on the comeback trail toward another heavyweight championship fight...
Occasionally, Author Paterson drives a weak narrative to the verge of collapse. An account of a heavyweight prizefighter whose devotion to a pet lion leads him to kill a man finds the author himself fighting out of his class and losing the decision on pointlessness. Too talky for his stories' good, Paterson packs small emotional wallop. But at his best he can tell a fresh tale with few frills and no assist from his analyst's corner...