Word: featherweights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Filipino fight fans took exception to Featherweight Champion Sandy Sadler's rough-and-ready tactics in a nontitle fight with Manila favorite Flash Elorde. While Sandy was firing at Flash with head and elbow, the crowd was taking pot shots at the ring with stones and pop bottles. The referee penalized the champ so often for dirty fighting that Elorde had no trouble winning a unanimous decision...
Team competition, as American scorers saw it, wound up in a 9-9 tie. But the U.S. had neglected to send a featherweight competitor, and the Russians, certain they were entitled to the featherweight points, claimed an 11-9 victory. The argument was incidental. Everyone was talking about Anderson. He had grown too monstrous to make much of a showing in "Mr. America" contests, but to Muscovites, who no longer differentiate between amateur and professional, athlete and show man, Paul Anderson was chudo prirody (a wonder of nature). He was indeed...
...Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, Sandy Saddler, an animated skeleton who has changed prizefighting into assault with all available weapons-feet, forearms, elbows and head-pummeled an overmatched contender named Red Top Davis for 15 rounds, and hung on to what passes for the featherweight championship of the world...
James Glenn, NBC's man for special effects, imported three varieties of snow for Christmas week: 1) confetti, for stage-trained comics who see no reason for changing a theater convention that dates back to Uncle Tom's Cabin; 2) modern, featherweight plastic snow that measures about twice the size of nature's flakes and is used mostly on dramatic shows, where it is scattered over a scene from "snow drops" (rotary drums) that are suspended over the set; and 3) a foamy snow spray, also plastic, that is released from an aerosol bomb by a stagehand...
...Vienna, as the Russian team piled up an unbeatable lead in the world weight-lifting championships, Russian Featherweight Fedor Tshimishkian set a new world record by lifting a total...