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Charles (in training at nearby Monticello, N.Y.) was reported feeling fine. "The next champ has been in perfect health since he had his infested tonsils cut out of his throat," said his manager, Jake Mintz (somewhat of an authority on medical matters, having once suffered from "coronated trombosis" himself...
Neither Jake's ready tongue nor Ezzard's health impressed the bookies. Rocky's eating habits bothered them not at all. Right up to fight-time at Yankee Stadium last week, most of those itinerant investment bankers saw the champ as a sure winner. They were giving odds of "3-to-1 and out," i.e., they would cover bets on ex-Champion Charles at the quoted odds; they would accept no Marciano money...
...some 1,000 living ex-Congressmen, a quorum is engaged, in Washington and in their home states, in the practice of law. Former Senator Joseph O'Mahoney represents Owen Lattimore, among other clients. Millard Tydings has a partnership with his father-in-law, onetime Ambassador Joseph Davies. Bennett Champ Clark and John Danaher, both former Senators, are judges of the U.S. Court of Appeals. One-third of the Supreme Court-Justices Hugo Black, Harold Burton and Sherman Minton-are former Senators...
...memory of the true champion lives on for generations after the mathematics of his achievement have been forgotten. His epitaph is not the thin type of the record book or the chestful of blackened silver trophies. It is legend. The Champ is inevitably bested. His record is broken. He dies. Or he retires in paunchy undefeatedness into the musty interior of a bar & grill, a half-interest in an oil well or the edible greenness of a southern pasture. Faster, stronger, younger, flashier pretenders rewrite the record books. But then they recede into the mists and, as before, memory clutches...
Married. Jackie Cooper, 32, ball-nosed onetime cinemoppet (Skippy, The Champ) turned Broadway actor (King of Hearts') ; and Barbara Kraus, 26, a Manhattan ad-agency production assistant; he for the third time, she for the first; in Washington...