French reporters were goggle-eyed when World Welterweight Champion "Sugar Ray" Robinson ambled into Paris' Claridge Hotel on the Champs-Elysées last November. Following the coffee-colored champ, like royalty's retinue, were his ex-show girl wife, Edna Mae, Manager George Gainford and his wife, two trainers, a secretary, Sugar Ray's golf professional, and his personal barber. Behind the procession a corps of panting bellboys wrestled with 32 trunks and 15 suitcases, containing (among other items) three radio sets, 140 jazz records, six punching bags, ten pairs of boxing gloves and Sugar's traveling wardrobe of twelve...
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