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Against the Dartmouth freshmen, the Yardling squash team continued its record of not losing a single individual game in intercollegiate competition by defeating an inexperienced Indian squad, 9 to 0. Winners in matches were Bill Morris at the number one slot, AI Terrell, Terry Robinson, Denny Lewis, Mike Cohen, Pug Wiaokur, Denny Lewis, Chum Steele, and Mike Tarre...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squash Team Trounces Dartmouth, 9-0 | 1/8/1962 | See Source »

...Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens, only 7,813 diehard fans showed up to watch mild-mannered Champion Floyd Patterson initiate Challenger Tom McNeeley into his "Bum of the Year" club. A pug-nosed, ex-Michigan State footballer who once visited a psychiatrist to get his "viciousness" cured, McNeeley butted, elbowed, and threw four low punches in a row. Before he was finally counted out at 2 min. 51 sec. of the fourth round, McNeeley had hit the canvas eleven times (two were ruled "slips" by Referee Jersey Joe Walcott), sported a nearly closed eye and a raw strawberry that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Three-Ring Circus | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

...that "punch-drunkenness" is the result of repeated head blows during a boxing career Reporting on a ten-year study of 3000 electroencephalograms (recordings of the brain's electric currents) taken on boxers Dr. Kaplan found no relationship between boxing and degenerative brain disease. The "punch-drunk" ex-pug he concluded, probably would have suffered the same fate had he never boxed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Doctors on Sport | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

Denouncing "premature nationhood," Elliott outlined a three-point program for cultural aid. A nation, he noted, first must be educated to discharge its international responsibilities and to develop its own resources. The United States then should combat Communist "pug-washing," fostering open forum discussion to develop responsible opinion. As the third objective, this nation should act "to better create a middle class power" of technicians and administrators in backward areas...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conference Studies U.S. Cultural Aid | 8/4/1960 | See Source »

...Three times before Sugar Ray Robinson had won back his middleweight championship in rematches, but the greatest craftsman of his day was only a floundering 40-year-old as he tried to regain the comic-opera title of New York and Massachusetts from a pug named Paul Pender. After losing a split decision in Boston, even the Sugar seemed to feel he was finished: "I just didn't have what it takes. I didn't do nothing. I lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Jun. 20, 1960 | 6/20/1960 | See Source »

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