As a scrawny youth, born with a club foot and a severe alternating squint, Doug Hepburn decided to become the world's strongest man. He achieved his goal, becoming the 1953 World Weightlifting Champion in Stockholm, and winning gold in the 1954 British Empire Games in Vancouver. In the biography Strongman (Ronsdale $19.95), Tom Thurston tells how the self-taught strongman was also an advocate for drug-free sport, an inventor and a singer. 1-55380-009-5

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