Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Louisville Lip, made good his brag. Halfway through the fourth round, he knocked out tired old Archie Moore, whose age (either 45 or 48) and 220 fights should have put him in retirement long ago. The victory did something for Clay's prestige as the seventh-ranking heavyweight (Moore, after all, once was a champion), and it did wonders for his selfesteem, which was unbounded anyway...
Cassius Clay knocked out Archie Moore exactly when he predicted he would--in the fourth round of their scheduled 12-round heavyweight fight last night. By knocking out Moore, 30 years his senior, Clay became a top contender to meet Sonny Liston after his return bout with Floyd Patterson...
Faculty Raiding. What has largely saved Stanford is its fifth president: J. E. Wallace Sterling, 56, a Canadian-born historian who looks like a heavyweight Jimmy Durante, sounds like Edward R. Murrow and thinks like Tycoon Stanford. The son of a United Church of Canada minister, Sterling worked his way through the University of Toronto pitching hay and peddling furniture polish. He got his doctorate at Stanford in 1938, went on to a distinguished teaching career at Caltech, where he also doubled as a CBS news analyst. He was director of the Huntington Library in 1949 when Stanford found...
...practice, Classics 206 relies on a couple of textbooks on Greek sports, plus the classics' numerous chorals to coordination, such as Pindar's Odes to victorious athletes or Theocritus' blow-by-blow description of fancy-dan Polydeucus outboxing Heavyweight Amycus, which may well be the origin of a human myth most recently disproved by Sonny Liston...
Requiem for a Heavyweight...