Word: liston
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Margolis, Sam puffed on his cigar and patiently explained that Listen had run up a tab of "thousands of dollars" in his restaurant -a favorite hangout for students from the nearby University of Pennsylvania. "I trusted him," said Sam. "Sonny used to play checkers with the college students." Liston cut him in purely out of gratitude, said Margolis: "I am his best friend, at least in Philadelphia...
...moving mobs at Black Hawk hockey games in 1923 by using polite, well-paid ($5 a night) college boys, built an elite of white-gloved, blue-and-gold-uniformed six-footers who maintain decorum at some 10,000 events a year, from political conventions (since 1932) and prizefights (Clay-Liston) to funerals (including his); of a heart attack; in Rochester, Minn...
...Liston Arrested Again...
Unlike Sonny Liston, a convieted armed robber who was arrested again last week for speeding with a concealed weapon in his car, Clay has never been in trouble with the law and, in accordance with Muslim commandment, does not even drink or smoke. Clay's ebullience and arrogance, though grating on the nerves of boxing sports-writers, who labeled him a loudmouthed patsy, were given substance by his performance against Liston. Since the fight Clay has held his bragging in check, and to many of us he somewhat infantile, personality...
This is all so obvious that it is hardly necessary to point out what a mockery Lassman is about to make of boxing. Cus D'Amato tried for years to avoid a Liston-Patterson fight, but so long as Liston was kept twiddling his thumbs at the top of the contenders' ladder, a few of us were willing to accept Floyd as the best heavyweight around. With Cassius Clay exiled from the boxing world no one will recognize Doug Jones or Ernie Terrell as a legitimate champion. Much as Lassman might wish that only nice Baptist boys from healthy middle...