Word: knockouts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year's Joe Louis-Lee Savold fight was carried by only nine U.S. theaters in seven cities. Last week 50 theaters in 31 cities packed in more than 125,000 people who paid close to $400,000 to see the closed-circuit telecast of Rocky Marciano's knockout of Joe Walcott. A drive-in theater in Rutherford, N.J., with a capacity of 1,300 cars, was sold out at $10 a car, and 7,000 chairs were set up for the overflow customers who had to park their cars outside the theater. One hard-luck theater, Manhattan...
...Honolulu Middleweight Carl ("Bobo") Olson, a technical knockout, after six rounds of a scheduled ten-round bout with The Bronx's badly outclassed Gene Hairston; in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. At ringside: Middleweight Champion Sugar Ray Robinson, displaying a surgically rebuilt nose and a lack of interest in a future match with Olson, who is the probable heir to Robinson's crown-if Sugar Ray retires without defending...
Pills & Poison. Most spies carry on (or in) their bodies three kinds of pills: 1) "knockout drops" ("which render a man unconscious for 24 hours"), 2) Benzedrine, 3) a quick-action poison for suicide. But the spycatcher may also be fairly certain that, apart from his pills, "every spy carries something incriminating either on his person or in his luggage." If he wears a watch & chain, for example, each jewel and metal segment of the watch, each link of the chain, must be microscopically examined for ciphers. All his cigarettes must be tested for invisible writing, all the tobacco sifted...
...still sprawled out on stool and ropes, unable to move. The bell rang for the 14th round, but he could not answer it. As Sugar Ray drooped in his corner, the ring announcer held high the hand of his thoroughly outpointed opponent and proclaimed "the winner by a technical knockout, and still light-heavyweight champion: Joey Maxim...
BROOKLYN, May 19--Carl "Bobo" Olson of San Francisco scored a technical knockout over Walter Cartier of New York in the fifth round tonight when the ring physician ordered the 10-round bout stopped because of Cartier's injured right ankle...