Word: madison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fans. "It's natural, ain't it?" asks Mondt. "Women like to look at well-developed fellas." They seem to like to crowd close to ringside, curse the villains, cheer the heroes, and punctuate the performance with strategically planted hatpins. In Manhattan, where wrestling fans bought out Madison Square Garden seven times last year and caused two small-scale riots, the most popular musclemen make up the tag team of Antonino Rocco and Miguel Perez. Rocco does so well that he is the highest paid wrestler now in the racket. He owns a ranch in Argentina and earns...
...MADISON SQUARE GARDEN is now controlled by the Graham-Paige Corp., investment company which paid about $4,000,000 for 40% of the sports arena's stock, owned by James D. Norris and Arthur M. Wirtz, who were forced to sell the Garden in compliance with a federal court order...
...Virginia Supreme Court's right to pass on the constitutionality of legislative acts the "judicial review" principle later adopted for the U.S. Supreme Court (Marbury v. Madison, 1803) by Chief Justice John Marshall of Virginia-was laid out in 1782 by Justice George Wythe with the new Court's very first decision: "If the whole legislature should attempt to overleap the bounds, prescribed to them by the people, I, pointing to the Constitution, will say to them, 'Here is the limit of your authority; and hither shall you go, but no further...
...Boston University freshman named John Thomas. Unheralded and almost unnoticed as the more spectacular racing events swirled around the track, Thomas broke the world's indoor record for the high jump twice in the last three weeks. This week in the Millrose Games at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, Thomas will pit his new 6 ft. 11¾ in. indoor record against Outdoor Champion Charlie Dumas, who holds the U.S. outdoor record...
...upheld an antitrust decree against the International Boxing Clubs of New York and Illinois. The decision broke the strangle hold I.B.C. has exercised on title bouts, directed I.B.C. Kingpins James D. Norris and Arthur M. Wirtz to dissolve both clubs, sell their controlling interest in New York's Madison Square Garden, open both the Garden and Chicago Stadium to any qualified promoter. Neither the Garden nor the Stadium may stage more than two championship fights a year. ¶ Thrashing purposefully against a stop watch in the Olympic pool at North Sydney, Australia's incredible whiz-kid, Lisa Konrads...