Word: middleweight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indeed, I had money on it." Joe Louis had been a hero of his younger days. Now it was the aging Patterson, struggling for a comeback, that he identified with. George had always followed the fights devoutely, and his own son had been a fine middleweight for a time. Boxers and jazzmen were the great folk heroes of that culture. In George's youth, long before black men were allowed into other fields of sports and entertainment, the fighter and the musician were looked upon with reverence and awe. These men, who could beat the hell out of white...
...white Episcopal priest who leaves a cloistered, scholarly life to take over a crumbling empty church in the imagined Harlem of the 1970s. There Pratt becomes inextricably involved with an anti-white Negro organization called the Horn Power Movement and its dynamic but tormented leader, George Horn Smith. Middleweight champion of the world, orator, professed illiterate and economic genius, Smith is a man possessed of a freakish protuberance-an eleven-inch horn jutting from his forehead...
WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). Nino Benvenuti v. Don Fullmer in a 15-round World Middleweight Championship fight, live from San Remo, Italy...
Wild and Unrestrained. That was in December. Now Woroner is back with the Ail-Time Middleweight Tournament and Championship Fight. But this time, he has a network of 650 stations in the U.S. and abroad, and advertising sales of about $4.5 million. His show might well be called the All-Time Most Successful Independently Produced Radio Series...
...blond Soviet Army lieutenant who has been working out with weights since he was nine years old, set an Olympic record in the press by lifting 336 Ibs. He followed that with a world record of 413¼ Ibs. in the clean and jerk to win the middleweight championship...