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...played by Britain's enchanting Claire Bloom, seemed well worth it. Playwrights '56 struck a more sombre note with Ernest Hemingway's The Battler, whose familiar plot (a heavyweight champion is broken by success) was well-served by Paul Newman as the crazed, broken-faced pug, and Dewey Martin as a young runaway who finds the world both terrible and tender...
...superb dancing, inventive musical numbers, witty spoofery of TV's overstuffed brass and mawkish product-hawking of such goodies as H 2 O Cola, as well as its spirited jabs and gibes at Madison Square Garden's crooks and pug-ugly environs, Fair Weather rates as one of the top contenders for the year's lightweight title...
...Slow and clumsy, and just about the only man in the house who did not know he was through as a fighter, former Heavyweight Champion Ezzard Charles stumbled around the ring in Miami for nine rounds before he finally dropped under the awkward flailing of a third-rate pug named John Holman...
...really happy. Last summer, in a Paris church, Sugar Ray remembers: "It suddenly hit me-a strange desire to fight again. It just conquered me. I figure it was God's will." Early this month, Sugar Ray took down his gloves and tried them out against a bumbling pug named Joe Rindone. He won by a knockout, but the fight proved little. Last week in Chicago, Sugar Ray squared off again-against a battered trial horse named Tiger Jones...
...second round, Charles went down under two looping rights and a left. In the $40 ringside seats at Yankee Stadium, the well-heeled fight mob howled for blood. "Don't kill him so quick. Rocky," begged an ex-pug, his fists doubled. "Cut him up first!" Charles was up at the count of two. With some of his old. dancing skill, the ex-champion rode out the round...