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...eastern New Jersey, and sparring at night in the sweaty clubs of his home town, Bayonne, N.J. After 41 fights, Wepner was hardly a superstar heavyweight; he had an unspectacular 30-9-2 record and ranked eighth on Ring magazine's list. Dubbed "the Bayonne Bleeder" because of the more than 300 stitches he had accumulated in the easy-to-open skin above his eyes, Wepner was an implausible opponent for Muhammad Ali, boxing's great and jaded world heavyweight champ. But Ali wanted an easy fight as a warmup for his next major title bout...
...trainer, Bill Prezant. During the long workouts, Wepner constantly dreamed of dropping Ali to the mat with a battering-ram right to the champ's unblemished chin; Braverman had visions of a Wepner TV commercial endorsing a shaving cream that gave even the world champion Bayonne Bleeder a smooth, nick-free shave. Prophesied Trainer Prezant: "This will be the biggest surprise in boxing." And Wepner's second wife Phyllis, a post office clerk, announced that she would like a Mercedes-Benz if her husband...
When menaced by a revolver-brandishing intruder in his new play, Woody Allen implores, "Don't pull the trigger. I'm a bleeder!" Though no shot is fired, Play It Again, Sam is riddled with laughs. Apart from being a hemophiliac, Allen's latest hero, Allan Felix, is an exposed ganglion of neuroses, guilts and self-recriminations. He looks like a wilted scarecrow that would cringe at a sparrow's chirp. He has so many psychological hang-ups that he makes playgoers feel positively healthy, which may be why they tend to love...
Similarly, the reader of nonfiction in 1922 kept ahead of the novel nut. H. G. Wells's The Outline of History and Hendrik Willem Van Loon's The Story of Mankind led the nonfiction list that year. The top novel was If Winter Comes, by the leading bleeder of the year, A.S.M. Hutchinson, whose This Freedom was No. 7, followed by Edith M. Hull's The Sheik. Sinclair Lewis' great period piece, Babbitt, did make the first ten, sharing last place with a forgotten field of corn called Helen of the Old House, by Harold Bell...
Often, because of guilt feelings in the mother who cannot suffer from hemophilia but has transmitted it to her son,* a young bleeder is maternally overprotected. The father feels left out and takes little interest in the boy. Even legitimate parental concern for a hemophiliac son's safety can transmit unnecessarily restrictive fears to him. The reaction in either case, says Dr. Agle, can be self-destructive. In an effort to deny his fears, the hemophiliac boy may take what are, for him, absurd risks by jumping from trees, riding motorcycles and even picking fist fights...