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Charles Pierce ("Chuck") Davey is well educated (an M.A. in education from Michigan State), well built (147 Ibs., 5 ft. 8½ in.), and he was well ballyhooed as an up & coming boxer. Turning pro in 1949, he fought 39 straight fights without a loss. Kid Gavilan, born about the same time as Davey, was educated in the sugar-cane fields of Camaguey, Cuba, where he developed a sleekly muscled body (146 Ibs., 5 ft. 10 in.) and a demonstrated ability to take care of himself with his fists (105 pro fights since...
...diminutive Ecuadoran, thrice intercollegiate champ while at the University of Miami, is best known for his two-fisted forehand. Like Kid Gavilan's "bolo punch," the weapon is crowd pleasing but not necessarily any more effective than the orthodox technique...
...Dutch family learned that Pfc. Magee, a lively kid, had left college and joined the Army shortly after Pearl Harbor. He shipped overseas, worked as an engineer in England and along the famed Red Ball Express through France, and got safely through the war. Three weeks after V-E Day, in May 1945, Magee was on duty as a sapper, clearing out old minefields near Bremerhaven. An unexploded mine went off, killing him instantly...
Author Phillips tells about his own lost generation. Gus Taylor, his hero, is a small-town Massachusetts kid of a good, middle-class family who gets in with the moneyed set at prep school. The story begins in the mid-'30s and follows Gus to Harvard, World War II and back again. Of all his pals, Gus alone seems to realize that postwar life must be more than a succession of boozy parties on Manhattan's upper East Side. He finishes at Harvard, goes to Columbia Law School and gets a good job. Author Phillips plays...
Boxing (Wed. 10 p.m., CBS). Kid Gavilan v. Vic Cardell...