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...breakfast to a demand for a law requiring all men to tell their wives how much money they earn. Four years ago, when every British man worthy of his gender stood breathlessly awaiting the first round of a long-heralded bout of fisticuffs between two gentlemen named Lee Savold and Bruce Woodcock, Dr. Edith threw a haymaker at the manly art of the prize ring itself. "The Woodcock-Savold fight and all similar spectacles," she announced at a garden fete, "are neither amusing nor instructive. Mothers and teachers must instruct small boys that fighting with fists or atomic bombs...
Theater Network Television is growing as fast as TV itself. Last year's Joe Louis-Lee Savold fight was carried by only nine U.S. theaters in seven cities. Last week 50 theaters in 31 cities packed in more than 125,000 people who paid close to $400,000 to see the closed-circuit telecast of Rocky Marciano's knockout of Joe Walcott. A drive-in theater in Rutherford, N.J., with a capacity of 1,300 cars, was sold out at $10 a car, and 7,000 chairs were set up for the overflow customers who had to park...
...Heavyweight Rocky Marciano, 27, a seventh-round technical knockout over aging (35) Lee Savold; in Philadelphia. Marciano, a leading contender for the world title, was so inept-once, missing with a wild right, he threw himself flat on his face-that Champion Joe Walcott, who had been dickering with Marciano, promptly agreed to a return fight in June with ex-Champion Ezzard Charles...
Rocky Marciano battered fading Lee Savold into a helpless, bleeding mess at Convention Hall in Philadelphia last night. The referee ended the fight after the sixth round, with Savold bleeding from the nose and mouth, and cuts over both eyes...
...Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis, an aging (37) shadow of the Brown Bomber, a sixth-round knockout (a right to the belly, a left hook to the head) over Lee Savold, 35; in Manhattan...