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...Urania's master electrical cables had been cut clean through. The damage postponed the Urania's readiness by a month, and will cost thousands of pounds. One day last week, electric wiring was cut on the frigate Loch Lomond, undergoing repairs at Bristol, and on the submarine Turpin, which is at Chatham for installation of secret equipment to help her evade detection by hostile surface craft...
Welterweight champion Carl Bobo Oison, in his first outing since he won the title in a final elimination bout with Britain's Randy Turpin, scored a fifth round knockout Saturday night over tough Joe Rindone of Roxbury, Mass...
Married. Randolph Adolphus ("Randy") Turpin, 25, British middleweight boxing champion; and Gwyneth Price, 27, daughter of a Welsh farmer; he for the second time, she for the first; in Wellington, England...
There was no ten-count punch in the Olson armory, but well before the end of the 15 rounds, Bobo had the title on points. Before the ring announcer could begin his portentous spiel ("The winner . . . and new Middleweight Champion . . ."), Loser Turpin dashed across the ring with a big smile and wrung the hand of Winner Olson. The new champion promptly burst into tears of happiness...
Next day, without waiting for his $57,492 paycheck, Middleweight Olson, who complained all through training that he was homesick, flew off to his wife and four children in San Francisco. Before Bobo left, Turpin put the new champion (and indirectly himself) in proper boxing perspective: "This lad isn't in the same class with Robinson...