Word: mohr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wiry, 22-year-old Charles Mohr was probably the finest collegiate boxer in the U.S.A University of Wisconsin senior Mohr was the 1959 intercollegiate champion at 165 Ibs., having won 23 fights and lost only five over a four-year period. Last April 9 at Madison, heavily favored to retain his title, he stepped into the ring against San Jose State's Stu Bartell. Minutes later, Boxer Mohr was in a deep coma from an intracranial hemorrhage following a moderate blow to the head. Eight days after the bout, without regaining consciousness, he died...
Boxing Is Good. The doctors agreed with Harvard's Quigley that "young men must blow off steam, and the playing field is much to be preferred to the tavern." They disagreed with the University of Wisconsin, which, after Boxer Mohr's death retired from intercollegiate boxing Said Newark's Dr. Max M. Novich onetime University of North Carolina boxer: As most physicians and educators know there has been a serious decline in the physical fitness of our youth. Boxing if properly taught, would be a step in the right direction in conditioning the body as well...
...Mohr's request, the President autographed two Eisenhower covers (Sept. 7, 1959; Man of the Year, Jan. 4, 1960) on which Mohr had done most of the reporting. Looking at the Sept. 7 cover, a portrait for TIME by the distinguished American painter, Andrew Wyeth, the President recalled that it had been criticized by some of his staff and remarked: "You know, I'm one of the few people around here who liked that portrait...
...smiling Ike told them, "we'll all have to get together for a farewell party." One of the reporters who knew that he would not be around for that party asked to spend a few minutes with the President for an early farewell. The reporter: Charles Mohr, TIME'S White House correspondent since December 1957, who will soon leave for India to become the TIME-LIFE New Delhi bureau chief...
After a brief chat with the President about his new assignment, Charlie Mohr left the White House in a reminiscent mood. He wrote...