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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...autobiography. Victory Over Myself, was completed, and World Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson, 27, felt a sudden urge to revisit the locale of one of his early chapters. Dragging along a passel of pals, the dusky boxer hustled them aboard a rush-hour "A" train to a subway station beneath Brooklyn's High Street station. Floyd scooted up a ladder to the dark cranny where 17 years ago. as a shy and unhappy ragamuffin, he spent his hours as a chronic hooky player from school. "Just like I remember it," said Floyd. "Crazy, man," said a trainer. Someone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 29, 1962 | 6/29/1962 | See Source »

Ebony Magazine's list of the 100 wealthiest U.S. Negroes (assets of at least $250,000 apiece) was chockablock with dentists, morticians and real estate moguls, but there was only a handful of familiar names-Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Comedian Eddie ("Rochester") Anderson, Heavyweight Champ Floyd Patterson, Baseball-Hall-of-Famer Jackie Robinson, Singers Marian Anderson. Harry Belafonte, Nat King Cole, Lena Home and Johnny Mathis, who was the only one of the bunch to place among the 35 Negro millionaires. One famous name missing from the list: high-living Horn Man Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, 61, who once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 11, 1962 | 5/11/1962 | See Source »

When Chairman Morehead Patterson rapped the annual meeting of American Machine & Foundry Co. to order in Manhattan last week, one of the first things stockholders wanted to know was why the company's stock had fallen from $63 to $32 in the past year. "God knows," said Morehead Patterson candidly. "We were the same corporation . . . What bothers me is that we have 30.000 more share holders now than before it happened, and I'm sorry for every one of them.'' Patterson's failure to predict any rise in AMF shares in the near future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State of Business: Squeezing the Great Bull | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

Describing the successful ascent of Albert W. Nickerson '62 and Leif-Norman Patterson, a graduate student at M.I.T., Everett said that "the work was physically and mentally straining, but no one ever complained about the scenery." Located in the Yukon, Mount Logan, almost 20,000 feet high, is the second highest mountain in North America...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Climbers Survive Winds, Attain Logan Peak | 3/27/1962 | See Source »

Judging from his record-33 wins, one loss, 23 knockouts-Sonny Liston can take care of himself in the ring. But he is unlikely to terrify Patterson. With only two exceptions (Tommy Jackson in 1956, Ingemar Johansson in 1959) Patterson has knocked out every man he has faced in the past seven years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Bad Guy | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

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