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...flood was covered by TIME String (part-time) Correspondent Champ Clark, grandson of Missouri's late Speaker of the House and son of former Senator Bennett Clark, now U.S. Circuit Judge in the District of Columbia. Young (28) Clark's regular work is at the rewrite desk of the Kansas City Star, where he was assigned late in June, wettest month on Kansas weather records, to write the stories on flood conditions throughout the region...
...also went home to a triumph. Camden's mayor decreed an official Joe Walcott day, joined 100,000 Jerseyites in front of city hall, flaunting banners: "Welcome Home Champ," "Good Job, Joe." In the jostling crowd, one fan straight-armed a policeman in his effort to get near his idol, shouting: "Wanna see the boy. Close-up like. Not way back here...
...pummeling the tired champion almost at will. "Don't let him hit you!" screamed Edna Mae. "Take care of yourself!" The uproarious crowd began chanting "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" before the referee even raised the winner's hand. Turpin had soundly trounced the champ who had lost only once before* in 126 professional fights...
...fight time approached, the champ began to loosen up. Pacing up & down the room, throwing in a quick skip-step before each turn, he began kidding with Papa and Manager George Gainford, was soon talking baseball and skipping an imaginary rope. By the time he walked down the aisle to the ring, jogging rhythmically to some inner melody, the atmosphere of tension and strained horseplay was gone. From the instant the bell sounded, Sugar Ray Robinson was the master craftsman who knew just what he was doing-the best fighter, pound for pound, in the world...
...looked about the room thoughtfully, as if he always wanted to remember this precise minute of this particular day. Then he went on: "Now take Joe Louis. Maybe he needs money. But it's the crowds, it's being the champ he misses. This isn't no easy life. Man, there's temptation. You don't know what temptation. Temptation, it eats away a man's will power. Will power don't last forever, you know." Robinson, using his expressive hands, showed will power going, temptation growing. "That...