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At 20, Clay has undoubtedly traveled farther by mouth alone than any fighter in modern years. Winner of the 1960 Olympic light-heavyweight championship, he has fought only 16 pro bouts, and although he has won them all, his opponents have either been downsliding veterans like Moore, who were dazzled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Louisville Lip | 11/23/1962 | See Source »

An all-purpose halfback-quarterback at Salt Lake City's Granite High in 1958, Fortie drew only fleeting interest from college scouts. University of Utah boosters invited him to a recruiting banquet, but the dinner was postponed. Utah State talent hunters asked him to a swimming party, took one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Phantom of Provo | 11/16/1962 | See Source »

One color is important to Oil Geologist D. Harold ("Dry Hole") Byrd, in whose two-acre Dallas garden Watson was putting the finishing touches on a $16,200 installation. The color is red. "See those three purple beeches," said Byrd to a visitor. "While the moonlight's going, I...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Garden: Moonlight Man | 11/16/1962 | See Source »

Some, dressed in cutaway coats and bathing trunks, are dunked in swimming pools. In one ceremony, an upperclassman set a ball on a freshman's head and tried to knock it off with a hockey stick in the William Tell manner. He missed, and the victim suffered a brain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Netherlands: Night of the Pig | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

"Daddy! Daddy!" At the opening bell, Fullmer characteristically folded his arms in front of him to ward off punches and lunged forward-straight into a barrage of overhand rights and crisp left hooks that snapped his head back and opened a small cut at the edge of his left eye...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Clawed by a Tiger | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

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