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Battling Bachelor. Halimi, who carries Cerdan's picture with him everywhere, is as tough as any of them. The youngest of 18 children of a poor Jewish postal inspector, he quit school at twelve and became a tailor's apprentice. Five years later he sewed himself a pair...
"Hello Defiance." Only a handful of people stood outside Central High School that night as the troops hove in sight. The paratroopers spilled out of their trucks, formed smartly on the school grounds. Field telephone lines were strung from the trunks of the high school's lordly oaks. Jeeps...
Into the Mud. With the aplomb of a man who has had such a request before, the ambassador rounded up his equipment and loaded it into a police car that appeared out front. During the 15-minute ride, he shucked the striped pants and swallow-tailed coat, climbed into trunks...
Light Heavyweight Champion Archie Moore (40, going on 46), world's most successful practitioner of the art of athletic geriatrics, was a little slow sweating down to size for his title fight with Challenger Tony Anthony, 22. But ageless Archie finally got down to the 175-lb. limit, hiked...
The Bloody Angle. Jimmy Richardson was always bored by news of government and politics and was convinced that readers were, too. "Unless there's a bloody angle to it," says one longtime staffer, "Jim just don't care." His particular talent, in the '40s and early '...