There’s no credit on this photo, but it wouldn’t surprise me if it were a Delmar Watson shot.
The Alexandria Hotel’s Palm Room has been converted to a gym as boxers Jose Becerra and Battling Torres train for bouts at the Coliseum.
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| Jan. 24, 1960: Republican Vice President Richard Nixon is slightly ahead of Sen. John F. Kennedy (D-Mass.) in a Gallup poll. Before his trip to the Soviet Union, Nixon was trailing Kennedy in the polls. In an accompanying story that was the first in a five-part series on pollsters, The Times noted that public opinion polls were expected to be particularly influential in the 1960 election and had already played a role in persuading New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller to drop out of the race. |
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