Word: boxer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expected to end the rocketing flight of Joe McCarthy. That it was a beginning, not an end, is partly explained by McCarthy's personality. Another man, humiliated by failure to produce evidence he said he held, would have retreated and wiped a bloody nose. McCarthy, who was a boxer in college, says: "I learned in the ring that the moment you draw back and start defending yourself, you're licked. You've got to keep boring in." This is not necessarily true of either boxing or politics-but Joe McCarthy thinks it is true...
This use of forceful tactics comes as a hangover from the days fifteen years ago when Jerry Owen was number one sparring partner for boxer Max Baer. Baer moved on to Hollywood as a slapstick comedian; Owen left him and started up the sawdust trail as an evangelist. As Owen explains it, Jesus came down one night to call him to the pulpit. Jesus said "Come on Jerry, I'se got sumpin' for you--I'm gone make you a fisher of men." Then Jesus dropped into the background to brush up on his grammar, and Jerry Owen baited...
...middleweight Army boxer, Eddie Eagan won the championship of the Inter-Allied game sin 1919. As an Olympic light-heavyweight he won the championship in 1920. At Yale he was U.S. amateur heavyweight champion, and as a Rhodes scholar in 1924 Eagan won his boxing "blue" at Oxford, coached his teammate and pal "The Fighting Marquess" (of Clydesdale), now Duke of Hamilton.* As a successful Manhattan lawyer and a lover of boxing, Eagan won another plum in 1945: boxing commissioner of New York State...
From this chance meeting, ex-Navy Boxer Harry Bennett became Henry Ford's closest companion for the remainder of the automaker's life, closer even than Ford's only son, Edsel. He was actually running the Ford empire in 1945 when young Henry Ford II stepped...
...punch. "I crossed a right to his jaw," said Neal. "He flew backwards ten feet and down and I was on him like a cat. He's got me mad now. I give him the right, the left, and the right, and the left . . ." Barbara hopped in screaming. Boxer Neal dumped her in a clump of bushes with a black eye. "We're all covered with blood," said Neal. "He's out." A neighbor said that Neal hit the prostrate Tone 30 times. It sounded like a punching...