Word: krakower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...confused with onetime (1928-39) Heavyweight King Levinsky (real name: Harry Krakow...
...through with "serious" golf for good, had got rid of the farm to concentrate on selling precision tools. Now 41, he observed: "Pretty soon it won't be a question of whether I can play four rounds in a championship but whether I can walk them." Henry Krakow, who as "King Levinsky" was a notable clown among the heavyweights (and lasted 141 seconds with Joe Louis), was picked up in Detroit for Chicago detectives who wanted to talk to him about a holdup. Now 33, he says he sells neckties for a living.*Katherine Rawls, 26, greatest all-round...