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...Eddie Machen, the No. 2 heavy weight contender until his soft jaw ran into Ingo's hard right, mixes with Reuben Vargas in a return match...
...then, with fame sweetening the air, the world champion went about the business of cashing in. Two days after his homecoming, Ingo hit the road on an exhibition tour aimed at earning $50,000, climbed into the ring for a few friendly rounds with brother Rolf, an amateur boxer. At Osthammar, some 3,000 fans crowded in (at $1 a head) to watch in vain for The Punch, chuckle at the champ's cries ("Throw me some mosquito oil"), and cheer happily when the referee solemnly declared him the winner...
...boxing champion in 25 years, Sweden's Ingemar Johansson was soundly lionized last week. Vacationing in Florida before returning to Goteborg to enjoy the biggest and loudest victory celebration ever given a homecoming Swede, he drew hordes of females straining for a glimpse of his rugged Scandinavian features. "Ingo" went deep-sea fishing and just missed catching a sailfish, frolicked in a saltwater pool with pretty Birgit Lundgren. She squelched talk that she is Ingo's fiancee, characterized herself as just a good friend who travels with Johansson to take care of his secretarial requirements. Businessman Johansson...
...risen far since he began as a street paver in his native Goteborg. At 26 he swoops along the same streets in a white Thunderbird, bosses $250,000 worth of equipment in the earth-moving business that he runs on the side. The son of a manual laborer, Ingo became the pride of Sweden with a simple public weapon: a devastating right...
...Ingo begins his fights with the cautious air of a businessman sizing up a major deal; then a purposeful mood of profit taking falls upon him, and he unleashes the right hand. It has brought him twelve knockouts in his 21 pro fights, all of which he won. No windmill mixer, Ingo is so conspicuously unmarked that he often works as a model. A paragon of gentlemanly rectitude outside the ring, he wears natty golf-club blazers, eats with his fork and never forgets his estate. After Patterson's diet of dreary semiamateurs (Pete Rademacher, Roy Harris), Ingo...