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On March 25, 1958, Sugar Ray Robinson defeated Carmen
Basilio to regain the middleweight championship. It was the
fifth and final title of his career. Robinson is considered by
many to be the greatest prizefighter in history. No less an
authority than heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali once
said, “My idol will always be Sugar Ray Robinson, who was,
and remains, one of the best pound-for-pound fighters to
have ever lived in this century.”

Sugar Ray Robinson was born Walker Smith, Jr. in Ailey,
Georgia, on May 3, 1921. Smith got his boxing name when
he borrowed his friend Ray Robinson’s Amateur Athletic
Union (AAU) card to enter a boxing tournament at the age
of 16. He won that tournament and, still using the assumed
name, turned professional in 1940, winning his debut bout–
the first of 40 consecutive victories. Robinson won his first championship in 1946 when he defeated Tommy Bell for the
welterweight title.

ED DANAHUE

On March 23, 1839, the initials “O.K.” are first published in
The Boston Morning Post. Meant as an abbreviation for
“oll korrect,” a popular slang misspelling of “all correct”
at the time, OK steadily made its way into the everyday
speech of Americans.

William Shatner is a Canadian born actor. In a career spanning
seven decades, he is best known for his portrayal of James T.
Kirk in the Star Trek franchise, from his 1966 debut as the
captain of the starship Enterprise in the second pilot of the
first Star Trek television series to his final appearance as
Captain Kirk in the seventh Star Trek feature film, Star Trek
Generations (1994).