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...troubles of James McShane have made news before. In 1954, as a New York police detective, he was temporarily demoted for getting his picture in the papers holding an umbrella over the head of Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano (McShane was off duty at the time and Marciano was an old pal). McShane also had the misfortune, as chief marshal, of being assigned to bring the late spy Robert Soblen back to the U.S. from Israel; as the plane approached London, Soblen took advantage of McShane's momentary absence to stab himself (TIME, July...
...went, all through the day and into the night. Groucho Marx showed up, and so did Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick, Hugh O'Brian, Hugh Downs, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, Phil Silvers, Hal March, Jack Dempsey, Rocky Marciano. Kyle Rote. Charley Conerly. Frank Gifford, James A. Farley. Jackie Gleason could not make it, but he sent a mass of fall flowers and a pal's salutation, which began: "Dear Clam Head...
...meshed neatly with Senate subcommittee hearings on a bid by Tennessee's Estes Kefauver to create a racket-busting federal boxing commissioner to purge the sport of gangland control. Kefauver's proposal won heavyweight support from a quartet of ex-champions who testified in Washington. Undefeated Rocky Marciano called it "absolutely essential"; normally closemouthed Joe Louis said it would prevent states like New York, the worst case he could think of, from giving gangsters "a chance to get a hold on boxers"; old Ring Foes Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey agreed that it would help boxing...
...gift of gab that somehow tends to make the public think of him as a jokester, underrate him as a champion. But for six years he has beaten all comers at 175 lbs. Three years ago in an unsuccessful bid for the heavyweight title, he knocked down Champion Rocky Marciano at an age when lesser fighters have long since gone into the bowling-alley business. On his ranch in Ramona, Calif. Moore keeps up a constant schedule of running, calisthenics and sparring to maintain fighting trim. Explains Archie: "I'm not a young colt any more...
...fighter," said Archie when he found his tongue. For the first time ever, the gaudy pitchman was guilty of astonishing understatement. What the sport needed next was some men good enough to take on the young and growing champ. The man most fitted for the assignment: Retired Champion Rocky Marciano...