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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...gathered to honor a self-conscious "publishing event": a 616-page special issue of Esquire, hailing "50 Americans who made the difference." In attendance were some of the issue's glittery contributors, including Norman Mailer, William Whittle and Kurt Vonnegut back subjects, Polio Vaccine Pioneer Dr. Jonas Salk, Boxer Muhammad Ali, Pollster George Gallup and Feminist Betty Friedan. Perhaps the central figures, however, were Phillip Moffitt, 37, and Christopher Whittle, 36, the Tennesseans who bought out investors including then Editor Clay Felker for a reported $3.5 million in 1979, when Esquire was losing $25,000 a day. Chairman Whittle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Esquire at Mid-Century | 11/21/1983 | See Source »

...Yankee Stadium one night last week. The murky sky was suddenly illuminated with scores & scores of blinding flashes of light as photographers frantically tried to get a whole evening's work into a few fleeting seconds. In the centre of the field, in a little canvas ring, German Boxer Max Schmeling, who was challenging Negro Joe Louis for the heavyweight championship of the world, was collapsing physically and professionally like a sky rocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPORT 1938: Fireworks: Joe Louis Beats Max Schmeling | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

DIED. Francisco ("Kiko") Bejines, 20, Mexican bantamweight boxer; from head injuries suffered in a World Boxing Council title bout with Alberto Davila on Sept. 1; in Los Angeles. After undergoing 3½ hours of surgery to remove a section of his frontal lobe, the boxer lingered comatose for two more days; his was the 437th boxing death recorded by Ring magazine over the past 64 years. Bejines' wife, pregnant with the couple's first child, remained in their home town of Guadalajara, Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 19, 1983 | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

When South African Hotelier Solo mon Kerzner speaks, he comes across more like a New Jersey dockhand than a powerful executive. He talks machine gun-style, from the corner of his mouth, with an accent sounding a bit like Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront. Yet the former college boxer's pugnacious manner suits his controversial role in business. Kerzner, 48, is southern Africa's casino king. In a country so morally conservative that movie theaters are closed on Sundays and Playboy magazine is banned as the work of the devil, Kerzner has succeeded in assembling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: King Sol | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

...just a little strange too. The boxer shorts for women look like standard Fruit of the Looms at first glance. Although they have more feminine lines and come in black and pink as well as white, the boxers retain the essential feature of masculine design: a fly. Klein had considered omitting the detail, but, says he: "It's sexier with the fly. These things are seriously thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Calvin's New Gender Benders | 9/5/1983 | See Source »

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