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...Tell Me."" One after another last week, they climbed bravely into the outdoor ring at The Pines, the swank borscht-and-bagels resort where Liston was training for his Sept. 25 bout with World Champion Floyd Patterson. One after another, they were helped out. "In the morning, Willie Reddish asks who's got The Bear today," sighed "Slim" Jim Robinson, who has had difficulty lasting one round, "and I say, 'Don't tell me until after I've eaten. I want to enjoy my breakfast.' " Onetime Welterweight Champion Barney Ross watched Liston deck another sparring...
Bigger and slower than Champion Patterson, Liston is working hard on speed, stamina and agility: he is well aware that he must catch Patterson before he can hit him. Once he gets within range, Liston is supremely confident of the result. At least he talks a great fight in advance. "I don't care when, where, or how we fight," he says. "I don't even care if Patterson's manager referees the fight. Just so long as he can count...
...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...
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...
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...