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...only good man at the University who was not kept down by the general lack of initiative pervading the IAB's boxing room is Professor John Bullitt of the English department, who once traded punches instead of teaching English...
...Bullitt was a freshman when intercollegiate boxing disappeared, but he want outside the College to get competition. As one of Lamar's proteges, he won the 135-pound championship of the Junior New England A.A.U.'s, the New England Open, and the New England Golden Gloves during his college years. "You should have seen Johnny's left hook in those days,' Lamar comments. "You couldn't stand...
There is also one very peculiar fact about boxers in general, they never seem to gain much weight in later life. "Maybe that's because we're just not as big as football players," says Bullitt, who has his boxing days...
...army, Voroshilov was made an officer by Trotsky's decree of August 13, 1918. His rise was phenomenal: reaching Defense Minister only six years later, he has ever since been among the half-dozen key men in the Moscow hierarchy. Quickly he came to close terms with William C. Bullitt, the first U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union. At a dinner party in Voroshilov's apartment on December 20, 1933--just nine days after Bullitt's arrival--the Marshal drew the ambassador aside and told him that if the American government desired, U.S. military men could have "a relationship...
...naval officers. In the succeeding months, U.S.-Soviet relations continued to deteriorate, and reached a nadir when American communists came to Moscow for the Seventh Congress of the Communist International in August, 1935--a patent violation of the agreement of recognition signed less than two years earlier. Ambassador Bullitt was crushed by what he considered a personal defeat as well as a slap in the face to his country. Though he advocated significant reductions in the staff of the Moscow embassy, he once again emphasized the importance of close relations with the Russian military leaders. Advising against withdrawing...