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...make his managers blush, but he was 6 ft. 3 in. tall, weighed 195 lbs., and he seemed to be growing as fast as he talked. He also had the niftiest pair of legs since Sugar Ray Robinson. One day in February 1961, he showed up in Miami, where Ingemar Johansson was training for his third fight with Floyd Patterson. Could he spar a little? Cassius asked innocently, and proceeded to dance rings around Johansson. The big Swede went into a slow boil. "What does this kid do?" growled Johansson. "Ride a bicycle ten miles...
...beat them with eye-catching combination punches. Until 1958 he was undefeated; he ranked as the No. 1 challenger and seemed sure to get a crack at the title held by Floyd Patterson. Then Machen had one dreadful fight. Traveling to Sweden, he took on little-known Ingemar Johansson, was standing idly in mid-ring when Johansson unloaded his "toonder and lightning" right hand and flattened Machen with a flash first-round knockout...
...Married. Ingemar Johansson. 29, dimpled former world heavyweight boxing champion; and Birgit Lundgren. 25, his right-hand gal since 1954 and official fiancee since 1959; he for the second time, she for the first; in Stockholm...
Judging from his record-33 wins, one loss, 23 knockouts-Sonny Liston can take care of himself in the ring. But he is unlikely to terrify Patterson. With only two exceptions (Tommy Jackson in 1956, Ingemar Johansson in 1959) Patterson has knocked out every man he has faced in the past seven years...
...will fly to London at the end of the and spend the summer in England, and France with a film company, under the direction of Ingemar "I've had a growing interest cinema," Aaron said. "I find it of a director's medium than the in view of the director's greater control over the final product." only solution to the conflicts and understandings which have plagued Loeb is for the Harvard Dramatic to "take over the building," Aaron The Faculty Committee on must choose the plays, but the should assume the responsibile and possession of the Loeb, he felt...