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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Coach Bill McCurdy plans to juggle his top three distance men, Mullin, Eddie Meehan, and Ed Hamlin. Manhattan's 1961 2-mile relay team set a world's indoor record of 7 min. 32.8 sec. and has two men returning from it. The relay will be the final event and may decide the battle...
Just 8 min. and 12 sec. later, after a makikomi-harai-goshi (wraparound sweeping hip throw), an okuri-ashi-harai (sweeping ankle throw) and a mune-gatame (chest hold), the Japanese lay exhausted on the tat ami (straw mat). The tall Dutchman towered over him in triumph. It was the most humiliating blow to Japanese pride since the Marianas turkey shoot, the Pacific air battle that polished off the remnants of Japanese air power in World...
...obscure German who looked like a lady wrestler, was matched off against Sonny Listen, whose career, besides 22 knockouts, included 19 known arrests, two convictions (armed robbery, assaulting a police officer), and a five-year term at the Missouri State Penitentiary. At 1 min. 58 sec. of the first round, Westphal, who had been backpedaling furiously, stood still long enough for Liston to hit him with a pawring left and a ponderous right. Then he pitched forward on his face for Listen's knockout No. 23. Westphal collected $12,000 and a plane ticket back to Germany. Liston...
...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 covered his entire right cheek. The estimated payoff: Patterson. $300,000; McNeeley...
...Rounding out its top team for the upcoming investigation of the nation's stock exchanges, the SEC named Manhattan Lawyer Richard H. Paul, 41, as chief counsel. Possessed of the cautious judicial temperament in almost exaggerated degree, Paul is a graduate of Cornell (class of '41) and Yale Law School, as a partner in the up-and-coming New York legal firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison has specialized in corporate and tax law. Reporting directly to the investigation's recently appointed generalissimo, Chicago Lawyer Milton Cohen, Chief Counsel Paul will oversee a staff...