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...Philadelphia, Sugar Ray Robinson over Honolulu's Carl ("Bobo") Olson, in a twelfth-round knockout, to retain his World Middleweight Championship (as recognized only in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts...
...against Smith was nothing compared to the anger of the 22 correspondents on the trip. The dustup was over the newsbeat Smith had scored on the Wake meeting by breaking an agreement with his peers. At Wake, the correspondents had to share a single radio teletypewriter to Honolulu. As a result, they agreed to pool the first communiqué from the conference and send it as a joint dispatch to the three wire services, United Press, Associated Press and International News Service. When the communiqué-the only real news in the meeting-was issued, it was sent down...
...Honolulu, on the way back, the New York Times's Tony Leviero sent a story forecasting a "knockout blow" in Korea (last week's paratroop landing above Pyongyang). Leviero's dispatch was garbled in transmission, so the Times wired back to check some of the facts. Leviero never got the original query, and was burned up when Smith got a play in the afternoon Honolulu papers with a "knockout blow" story of his own plus a Page One spread next morning in the New York Herald Tribune, Leviero's opposition. Leviero cabled his boss, Washington Bureau...
...Windfall. In Honolulu, the Better Business Bureau revealed that at least four imitation checks (face value: $134.95; cash value: $0.00), issued by a union as promotion material had been cashed...
Duke Poao Kahanamoku, longtime (1912-32) Olympic swimmer, celebrated his 60th birthday by paddling in the winning boat in two outrigger canoe races. Now in his eighth term as sheriff of Honolulu, the Duke also hinted that he might run for mayor on the Republican ticket this fall...