Word: welterweight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...transatlantic flying boat taxied to a mooring in Miami, and out stepped a brisk welterweight with a carved-coconut face, Britain's fabulous Lord Beaverbrook. Scrunched into a black overcoat, he emplaned for Washington. There he dined with the President...
...beneficial to his asthma. It also inspired the Beaver to broadcast to his fellow Canadians his passionate conviction that the United Nations' No. 1 battlefront is Russia, where supplies and men must be rushed for a "deadly, offensive stroke." Giving a Beaverish twist to the Beatitudes, the welterweight lord declared: "Unless we have resolute, determined, brave citizens trained to handle the tanks and guns . . . then we cannot be blessed, we cannot be the peacemakers, we cannot inherit the earth...
...Harlem's coffee-colored Ray Robinson; a prize fight with Welterweight Maxie Berger of The Bronx; scoring a technical knockout in 1 min. 43 sec. of the second round; in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. For Robinson, "the little Joe Louis," it was the 28th victory in a row since he turned professional a little more than a year ago. His next opponent will probably be Welterweight Champion Red Cochrane...
...year ago, Robinson fought his first professional fight-on the preliminary card at Madison Square Garden the night Fritzie Zivic won the welterweight title from Negro Henry Armstrong. Hammering Henry was Ray's ring hero. When he saw Zivic pound his hero's face into a tomato-red pulp, the kid sobbed: "Some day I'm gonna grow big enough to get even with him for what he did to Hank...
...Sugar can be fattened up to around 145 lb., he should soon be ready to challenge Champion Red Cochrane (now in the Navy) for the world's welterweight title. Robinson's next engagement: a return match with Marty Servo, Nov. 10 in Philadelphia. Servo is one of the three fighters who have lasted ten rounds against the Boogie-Woogie Bomber...