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...street fighter and the ex-stevedore, both now 24 and duly coached and polished in Marquis of Queensberry niceties, met for the American middleweight championship, a title which has been vacant since Sugar Ray Robinson retired. Also at stake: a world title bout with European Champion Randy Turpin in August. Punching Paddy Young's campaign plan was simple: bore in swinging for a knockout. Bobo Olson, a far fancier fighter, figured to win on points...
...London, British Middleweight (160 Ibs.) Champion Randy Turpin* scored a dull but decisive 15-round decision over France's Charles Humez. To settle the succession to the world title, vacated when Sugar Ray Robinson retired, Turpin will next meet the winner of the coming fight between Carl ("Bobo") Olson and Paddy Young...
...other news of Pugilist Turpin, see MILE-STONES...
Divorced. Randolph Adolphus ("Randy") Turpin, 25, Britain's contender for the world middleweight championship; by Mary Theresa Turpin, 26; after six years of marriage, one son; in Leamington, England...
Noyes's next success, The Highwayman, carried him even further-into "scores of anthologies and several hundred schoolbooks in England and America." It has since become the basis of two cantatas (one by Deems Taylor) and, like another popular Noyes work, Dick Turpin's Ride, the theme of a movie. On these successes Scotsman Ian Crawford based his fine parody, Hollywood Highwayman, with its memorable third stanza...