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...fight managers and lesser figures of the pugilistic trade, Sports Editor Dan Parker of the N.Y. Daily Mirror has developed a fine ear for Manhattan's ringside speech and idiom. This week, in his column, Parker gave a health report on Armand Weill, manager of Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano, as told by "Al" Weill himself...
...little steamed and demonstrated with him. So he says, T didn't call you a mope. I mean your pupils ain't woikin' right!' So I says, 'Oh, yeah? What's wrong wit' the way Rocky Marciano is woikin'?' " How was the respiration? "I didn't have none. I kept . . . cool." Was Al's tension all right? "You bet your life it was. As long as I was payin' so much for the checkup, I listened to every woid he said . . . The most disappointin' part . . . was when...
...nationally-televised bout starting at 10 p.m. reportedly would put a victorious Charles in the ring against Marciano in a June title bout at New York or San Francisco...
...Francisco, ex-Heavyweight Champion Ezzard Charles, 32, bidding for a comeback chance against Rocky Marciano next summer, scored an impressive tenth-round knockout of younger (by seven years) and heavier (by eleven pounds) Coley Wallace, the fighter who doubles for ,the hero in the movie The Joe Louis Story...
...winning his 45th professional bout, his 40th by a knockout, Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano collected $187,000. It might be his last big check for a while. At the moment, nobody seemed to be able to think of a natural new challenger...