Sport: Black Moses

(See Cover) Next Monday night 27-year-old Joe Louis is to defend his Heavyweight Championship—for the 19th and maybe the last time.

This time the challenger for Joe Louis' crown is a student of yoga, 26-year-old Lou Nova who has boasted that he is a Man of Destiny, that he will knock out the Champion with his "cosmic punch" (straight from the seventh vertebra, center of balance), and the aid of his "dynamic stance," his controlled breathing.

Probably about 50,000,000 radio-fight fans* will listen in for good reason. Not only is Lou Nova about as likely...

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