Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mellowing Jack Dempsey, 53, revealed that he gets Christmas and birthday greetings regularly from Gene Tunney, and that Luis Firpo (the Wild Bull of the Pampas) drops him an occasional letter...
...most responsible for the boom in boxers is John P. Wagner, a Chicago utility financier and onetime Great Dane breeder. Thirteen years ago, Wagner took a $4,000 gamble by buying Dorian von Marienhof, the champion boxer of Germany. Then he talked 50 or so people (including Jack Dempsey and Sally Rand) into buying shares in his prize brute...
Long Count. In St. Paul, Mrs. Jeanette Darling, suing for divorce, testified that her husband had not been home since he went off to Shelby, Mont, to see the Dempsey-Gibbons fight...
...shortage of good young fighters was certainly acute. In gyms and fight clubs the U.S. over, the hard-eyed operators who make boxing their business scratched heads and tried to figure out the reason. After World War I there had been no dearth of fighters: there were Dempsey, Paul Berlenbach, Jack Delaney, Young Stribling and a raft of others...
Georges ("Gorgeous Georges") Carpentier, a promising French heavyweight until he tried to mix it with Jack Dempsey in 1921, came back for a visit to the U.S. with some thoughts on middle age (he is 54): "I don't feel old. I know I'm getting old, but I don't feel it. I don't want to see it even. I don't look in the mirror any more." He had found that "life is very interesting if you make mistakes. That gives you an ambition in life to correct mistakes, to make money...