Word: lightweight
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Talk of this sort was right down the back alley of Ike Williams, onetime (1947-51) lightweight champion and now a $46-a-week New Jersey state employee. Appearing before Senator Estes Kefauver's hearings on the ills of boxing, Williams complained that he, too, had been underpaid throughout his career (during which he grossed $1,000,000), never had got his cut of $40,000 for two big fights from Manager Frank ("Blinky") Palermo. What seemed to nag at Williams most was that he had turned down more than $180,000 in bribes to throw fights, including...
...Varsity Lightweight Crew Captain; President, Undergraduate Athletic Council; Treasurer, Eliot House Committee; Harvard Band; Cheerleader; Hasty Pudding...
Eliot House Drama, Chairman; Eliot House Committee, Secretary; Lightweight crew; P.B.H.; National Merit Scholarship; Harvard College Honorary Scholarship; Hasty Pudding...
...lightweight race included three undergraduate boats and a crew from the Business School stroked by Jim Meade. Winning the race and the "Hackers Cup," Larry Fogleburg's crew finished three-fourths of a length ahead of Bill Adler's boat Dick Garver's eight beat out the Business School boat to finish third...
...friend named Henry Ford; apparently of a heart attack; in his remote stone mansion near Stow-on-the-Wold, England. A farm boy like Ford, Irish-born Ferguson saw machines as vehicles for worldwide peace and plenty, tinkered early with autos and planes, invented a radically new, hydraulically controlled, lightweight tractor that was produced by Ford, and at 71 showed off the prototype of a rugged, gearless, turbine-powered "wonder car." Shy but stubborn, Ferguson sued Henry Ford II in 1948 for $341,600,000 for Dreaking the oral tractor deal, settled four years later for $9,250,000. Said...