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...arts, Harvard honored American composer Elliott C. Carter '30 with a Doctor of Music and architect Marcel Breuer, master of the famous Bauhaus in Dessau, Germany, with a Doctor of Arts...
Personal Force. At 15, petit Marcel climbed into his father's old sweatsuit and began training under the paternal eye of Filippi. At 16, he made his Paris debut in a three-rounder that was billed as the rebirth of French boxing. Pale and visibly trembling, the teenager won a narrow decision over an unknown Algerian, returned to his dressing room and fainted. After turning pro at 21, Marcel Jr. fought 47 bouts against carefully chosen opponents over the next five years, winning 46 and drawing one to become the world's tenth-ranked welterweight. Earlier this year...
After a visit to the Paris grave of famed Chanteuse Edith Piaf, his father's mistress, petit Marcel finally arrived at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week for his first fight in the U.S. As always, he carried with him cherished mementos of his father: the taped water bottle he always used in the ring, the watch he was wearing when he died, the bloodstained trunks he wore when he dethroned Zale. Whenever anyone mentioned his quest for the championship, petit Marcel spoke the few words of English he had mastered: "It is my destin...
Canada's Donato Paduano, the ninth-ranked welterweight, was more realistic about his ten-round bout with Marcel Jr. "I am fighting the son, not the father." That was immediately apparent at the opening bell. Slighter and speedier than his father, Marcel Jr. showed himself to be a crisp, stylish counterpuncher. Busily bobbing under Paduano's strong jabs, he repeatedly beat the Canadian to the punch in the early rounds. Paduano and the crowd of 10,767 soon realized, though, that the son had none of the raw, put-away power of the father. Though slowed...
...dressing room afterward, petit Marcel was philosophic. "To be champion," he told the press, "one does not have to win every fight." Then, clutching an unopened bottle of champagne, he stood up and asked through a translator: "Overall, what did you think of me?" The reporters politely applauded. In Paris, where the fight was televised via satellite, the verdict was harsher -and truer. Headlined France-Soir: THE END OF A DREAM: CERDAN WON'T BE ABLE TO BECOME WORLD CHAMPION...