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...Olson, the U.S.'s top-ranking middleweight boxer now that Sugar Ray Robinson has retired, scored his eighth straight victory (and 51st in 56 bouts) over Norman Hayes with a unanimous ten-round decision. Hopeful next on Olson's agenda: a bout with Britain's Randy Turpin, who took the title from Robinson, then lost it again...
...career did he fire the imagination of the fans, who always like a slugger better than a boxing perfectionist. Beaten once on points by Jake La-Motta (in the second of their six matches), Robinson lost his second bout and his middleweight championship to Britain's Randy Turpin in 1951. Some 60,000 turned up at the Polo Grounds for the rematch, the first really big gate Robinson ever attracted. Battered and bleeding, his timing way off, Robinson made a dramatic tenth-round comeback and knocked Turpin out. Robinson's last ambition then was to win the light...
...manager of the Balaban & Katz theater chain, is that nine fights and football games cost B. & K.'s Chicago Tivoli theater $23,640. Admissions brought in $14,541. Total loss (excluding normal operating costs): $10,312. The only Tivoli telecast to make money ($1,213) was the Robinson-Turpin fight in September. B. & K. has invested $128,000 in special TV equipment for five theaters, but, said Wallerstein, the company will make no further installations...
...good (e.g., gulping jelly beans at a poker game, only to learn he has devoured $5,000 worth of substitute chips), he is as funny as anyone on the screen. When he is bad (e.g., making cross-eyes), he is as tiresome as a small boy imitating Ben Turpin...
...Britain, the Times of London raised its editorial eyebrows in cold disapproval to note that electrical consumption in the United Kingdom rose 6% when an estimated 4,000,000 Britons turned on their radios and televisions to follow the Robinson-Turpin fight. The Times reproved its fuel-short readers, "it meant a consumption ... of about 70 tons of coal...