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...Shoot, Texas, has fought 22 professional bouts and won them all, but he has never been seen either on TV or outside Texas. Last week, to stir the nation's interest in the new contender for the heavyweight crown (he is due to fight Champion Floyd Patterson in Los Angeles on Aug. 18), TelePrompTer Corp. offered a Texas junket to some of Yankeeland's top sportswriters. What the ringside pros saw left them happy, dazed, full of copy, and fat pigeons for TelePrompTer's pressagents...
...father, "Big Henry'' Harris, a 237-lb., 47-year-old bear who has been called "the best fist, knee, knife and heel fighter in the territory." Big Henry raised his two sons, Roy and Tobe, as fighters, roamed saloons for daring comers, now tells Roy to whip Patterson "or I'll whup...
With all the barefooted kids, the moonshine, the crawling alligators, the cussin' and fightin' Harrises, Yankee sportswriters were a happy bunch, and Roy Harris began to sound as though he might be a fair country fighter-at least good enough to challenge the so-so Patterson. Happiest of all was TelePrompTer President Irving Kahn, who wants to sell 500,000 theater seats across the nation to cash in on his deal of an exclusive closed-circuit TV show of the Patterson-Harris fight, now seems in a fair...
ARTHUR H. PATTERSON Sheepscot...
Competing against low temperatures and a drizzle, Alfred Nash Patterson conducted a worthy semi-concert version of Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes, probably the finest British opera since Purcell's Dido...