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America's Town Meeting (Tues. 8:30 p.m., ABC) debates: Whom Should the Republicans Nominate? Rocky Sraziano v. Tony Zale...
Picking Up $120,000. With that performance, Rocky got his foot in the door. Three days later, at Toots Shor's restaurant in Manhattan, a battery of publicity men escorted tieless Rocky into a room filled with cold cuts and sports reporters. He and ex-Middleweight Champion Tony Zale signed a contract to fight for the title on June 9 in Newark's Ruppert Stadium, Rocky's guarantee...
...crowded Turkish bath. A thermometer near the ringside, under the furious glow of the ring lights, read 88°. A crowd that paid $422,918 to get in (double the take of any previous indoor fight) was packed shoulder to shoulder. The organ pumped out the National Anthem, Zale stood at attention like everybody else, but Rocky Graziano, the reform-school graduate from Manhattan's Lower East Side, went right on dancing and sparring in his corner...
...Yellow. By the third round, it seemed as if Graziano was to be spared the unpleasantness of seeing the terrible things that were happening to him. After a flurry of Zale punches had sent him down for no count, his right eye was closed to a slit, his left blinded by blood. Rocky-who well remembered that after last year's fight some sportswriters had called him yellow-kept groping forward, swinging wild punches and dripping blood on Zale. Between rounds, the Illinois Athletic Commission's doctor looked at Rocky Graziano's eyes, decided...
Even the Caspar Milquetoasts in the crowd were howling for Zale to make the kill. But the heat and his 33 years (eight more than Rocky) began to tell on ex-Steelworker Tony; he weakened badly in the fifth round. Early in the sixth, one of Graziano's swing-&-a-prayer haymakers landed squarely. Suddenly Tony was helpless; his arms dropped and his head jerked back & forth as Rocky hit him at will. After nearly 40 punches, Steelman Zale had not gone down, but he was lying inertly doubled over the ropes, with Graziano hammering...