Word: walcott
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...train of events after the knockdown surpassed even the coup de grace itself. The camera focused on the supine Liston, but there was no ign of referee Jersey Joe Walcott administreing the mandatory eight count. Then, as Liston vainly tried to get up, Clay dashed into the picture, being restrained by Wolcott, just as the challenger was tumbling down again after having risen to one knee...
...before the funeral procession Monday morning. They never stopped. At 2 a.m., a wornan walked by the bier wheeling an infant asleep in a stroller. A blind man was led by the casket, his companion softly whispering a description of the scene. At 2:30 a.m., Jersey Joe Walcott, onetime heavyweight champion of the world, went by. He had waited eight hours in line...
...legend, as critics never tire of reminding us. Yet he did not come by this talent easily: he worked at it as a young journalist. Fox example, in 1929 he got a New Yorker assignment to report the meetings of the Orange County Afternoon Delphian Society. As Walcott Gibbs reflected in 1938, after a while the stories became almost impossible to read, "the sensation was uncomfortably like being trapped among the ladies while they talked...
John Feldtmose '62, of Dudley House and Somerville, has been elected president of WHRB, a local radio station. Alvin P. Sanoff '63 was elected vice president, and Walcott B. Durham '65 as treasurer. Paul Ryack '62 and David Levy '63 were elected to the WHRB board, and Susan Miller '64 was appointed clerk...
...visited a psychiatrist to get his "viciousness" cured, McNeeley butted, elbowed, and threw four low punches in a row. Before he was finally counted out at 2 min. 51 sec. of the fourth round, McNeeley had hit the canvas eleven times (two were ruled "slips" by Referee Jersey Joe Walcott), sported a nearly closed eye and a raw strawberry that covered his entire right cheek. The estimated payoff: Patterson. $300,000; McNeeley...