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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...
...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...
...hand to greet Khrushchev as part of a nine-man force assembled for TIME'S on-the-scene coverage of the U.N. session. The others, covering their special fields or assigned to specific facets of the story, were Washington Bureau Chief John Steele, White House Correspondent Charles Mohr, State Department Correspondent John Beal, Latin American Specialist Jerry Hannifin, New York Correspondents George Bookman and Bill Smith, Chicago Senior Correspondent Murray Gart and Montreal Bureau Chief Gavin Scott...