Togetherheid at the Polo Grounds

Floyd Patterson, who looks like David Susskind in blackface, but who actually is a more interesting and complicated person, scored a magnificent personal triumph at the Polo Grounds in New York on June 20.

In battering an inept, outclassed and badly scared Ingemar Johansson into submission, Patterson became the first heavyweight ever to regain the world championship. He exacted a terrible revenge for the humiliation heaped upon him last year by the Swede. And he brought the title back this side of the three-mile limit—where it belongs. All the world must know this. Even George Sokol- sky, that old sports buff, penned his comments upon the fight. Old hat or, no, however, it was quite a night and, happening at the time it did, a fitting prelude to Independence Day in the Congo.

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Floyd Patterson, who looks like David Susskind in blackface, but who actually is a more interesting and complicated person, scored a magnificent personal triumph at the Polo Grounds in New York on June 20.

In battering an inept, outclassed and badly scared Ingemar Johansson into submission, Patterson became the first heavyweight ever to regain the world championship. He exacted a terrible revenge for the humiliation heaped upon him last year by the Swede. And he brought the title back this side of the three-mile limit—where it belongs. All the world must know this. Even George Sokol- sky, that old sports buff, penned his comments upon the fight. Old hat or, no, however, it was quite a night and, happening at the time it did, a fitting prelude to Independence Day in the Congo.