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...rock-'n'-roll singer who uses his right hand mostly for shaving: in a sparring session, newsmen noted that he threw 23 consecutive left jabs. Machen's main claims to fame are that he was out pointed in twelve rounds by Floyd Patterson, flattened in the first round by Ingemar Johansson, and confined for five weeks to a California mental hospital. The best fight of the evening occurred when two fans in the $20 seats unaccountably started punching each other in a dispute over tickets and somebody knocked over Terrell's water bucket. Then the boys...
Nicholas W. Gillham '54, a plant geneticist, will become assistant professor of Biology, and Thomas C. Patterson, a specialist in South American archaeology and ethnology, will be assistant professor of Anthropology...
...took him only one round to find a brand-new challenger. Discredited as he was by two quick knockouts at the hands of Sonny Liston, Floyd Patterson, 30, is still one of the most interesting fighters ever to climb into a ring: a problem child, a moody, monkish man who at 21 became the youngest heavyweight champion ever, without even becoming a real heavyweight. Floyd weighed 182¼; lbs. when he knocked out Archie Moore in 1956; for last week's fight he weighed 197¼ lbs., the heaviest of his career-and the bulge of fat around...
...voted for Patterson, 6 to 5 (one even), and the judges made it unanimous by a wide margin. Patterson had been rocked by solid punches to the head; the skin around his kidneys was covered with bloody welts. "I kept telling myself, 'You can't be knocked out, you can't be knocked out,' " he said afterward. He talked longingly about a title fight with Clay and another shot at Liston, and chided sportswriters who predicted that Chuvalo would put him down as soon as he tapped him on his china chin. "I proved that...
...Could Patterson beat Clay? Or Liston? Maybe not. But he had at least won his right to one more big payday...