Word: hodding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wanna See the Boy." Then Jersey Joe Walcott, ex-longshoreman, ex-hod carrier, who spent a bitter year and a half on home relief and who lost 15 of his 64 listed fights because "hunger was my house guest," went home to Camden, N.J. to his wife and six children, the oldest man in history to win the World Heavyweight Championship...
...years ago to compete with the 86-year-old Natchez Democrat (circ. 4,918). The Times almost caught up in circulation (4,513), but made so little money that the owners were glad to turn over the paper's management and sell half its stock to Hod Carter for an undisclosed figure. Publisher Carter and his 35-year-old general manager, John T. Gibson, who will split Carter's half-interest in the Times, immediately went to work to make things hot for the competition. In his first issue last week, Carter cleaned...