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Before he came to Harvard in 1931. Lamar had an outstanding career as a fighter. He won the national amateur light heavyweight championship in 1925, as a high school senior, in a bout at the Boston Garden. He also held the Pan-American light heavyweight title...
After he was graduated from the University of Virginia in 1929, he boxed professionally until he lost a bout to Jim Maloney at Boston's Braves Field in 1930. He told a friend, "That's enough. I'm never going to be a champion...this is a good time...
Cambridge Mayor Leonard J. Russell, 52, died June 13 after a long bout with cancer. Russell, a city councilor for 10 years before his election to the higher office in 1983, was the first Cambridge mayor ever to die in office...
...revving up its Rolls-Royce schedule, but its financial graph was strictly De Lorean. A quick hit was in order, and Tartikoff lucked into it at the Larry Holmes-Gerry Cooney title bout in Las Vegas, where he saw Mr. T, fresh from Rocky III, monopolizing the crowd's attention. Back in Los Angeles, Tartikoff penned a legendary proposal to Producer Stephen Cannell: "Road Warrior, Magnificent Seven, Dirty Dozen, Mission: Impossible, all rolled into one, and Mr. T drives the car." Cannell cobbled up The A-Team, which won a 40 share in its first season and pulled hard...
Cambridge Mayor Leonard J. Russell, 52, died June 13 after a long bout with cancer. Russell, a city councilor for 10 years before his election to the higher office in 1983, was the first Cambridge mayor ever to die in office...