Sport: Survivor

Until one night last week, any man who could go into the ring against the milk-chocolate-colored fighting machine called Joe Louis and survive ten rounds, would have Done Something. But when a 22-year-old former college footballer named Bob Pastor had eluded Louis for 30 minutes and come out of Madison Square Garden without a mark, the U. S. fight public began to wonder.

"I told you so!" shouted Pastor's promoter, James J. Johnston, who had promised to explode the box-office prestige of his rival Promoter Mike Jacobs' Joe Louis. "Louis is a terrific hitter but he's not a great fighter. He can't...

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