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Always ready to tie one of his "specials" to a major event, Bob Hope, 78, took a ringside see of the comparative punches of Heavyweight Champ Larry Holmes, 32, and Challenger Gerry Cooney, 25. Holmes and Cooney do not face off until June 11, but for his NBC show this week, Hope laced up a pair of oversize Everlasts and traded light punches and patter with the fighters. He remembered to keep his guard up from youthful days when he boxed under the name Packy East. Says he: "You don't think I was born with this nose...
Finally, seniors Scott Powers and Alan Litchfield received the Ralph "Cooney" Weiland Award for devotion to the game as "evidenced by aggressive and spirited play and by selfless contribution to the total team effort representative of 'Cooney's' type of hockey player...
...long-awaited WBC heavyweight title bout between defending champion Larry Holmes and Gerry Cooney was rescheduled for June...
...President Joan Ganz Cooney explains that her team wants "to build an appetite for science, not force feed it." Elementary-school teachers, responding to CTW's announcement of the show, have requested 100,000 copies of a free classroom guide. Though the show will generally be aired after school, the Friday program, which reviews the week's material, will also be broadcast during morning hours for classroom...
Joan Ganz Cooney, president of the Children's Television Workshop and a director of four corporations, on keeping up appearances at board meetings: "Sure, it's a killer. But I'm determined to die pretty...