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...winning students are Daniel A. Braverman '80, Andrew S. Fruchter '80, Matthew M. Guerrairo '80, Michael Pakaluk '79-4, James M. Poterba '80, and Patricia A. Rosenmeyer...
...barrage of kicks at Winner Johnny Boudreaux, who was being interviewed by Howard Cosell. During the melee, Cosell's hairpiece came unstuck-and so did the tournament. LeDoux later charged fix, claiming that Boudreaux was among a stable of fighters managed by King associates. Paddy Flood and Al Braverman. According to LeDoux, their pugs had a lock on the championships, receiving preferential booking in the tournament and the special favors of judges. After the fight, a federal grand jury was convened in Baltimore to investigate the charges. Indictments are expected...
...Knew you couldn't get them together, even for a 25th reunion," says Joan Braverman Pinck, president of the Radcliffe student body in 1950 and now an assistant dean at the Business School. "It is a very individualistic group of people...
With his boxing days on the wane, Wepner, 35, needed no coaxing. For the first time in his career, he could afford to train full time. He spent eight weeks near the Catskill Mountains under the watchful eyes of his amiably foul-mouthed manager, Al Braverman, and his 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...
...Then, in the 15th round, with 19 seconds left to the fight, Ali slammed a right into Wepner's bloody face and spilled him into the ropes. Although Wepner was lurching up by the count of nine, the fight was over, ended by Perez on a technical knockout. Braverman and other aides half-hauled Wepner's beaten body back to his corner, and Ali collapsed in exhaustion on the canvas. Of his adversary, Ali later said: "There's not another human being in the world that can go 15 rounds like that." Wepner was proud. Said...