Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jack Dempsey...
...heavyweight championship of the world 64 years ago from Jess Willard and lost it seven years later to Gene Tunney, but right up until the day he died last week, many still thought of Jack Dempsey as champion. And one could not think of Dempsey without thinking of Babe Ruth, Bobby Jones, Bill Tilden, Red Grange. Other athletes have survived to 87, but no other period in sport, and maybe not just in sport, has lingered so glamorously long. The '20s not only roared, they remained...
...Charles Dempsey, 54, the inspector general at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, will fill in temporarily for Novick. Alfred M. Zuck, 48 an Assistant Secretary of Labor for Administration and Management, was named to take over for Horton on an acting basis. EPA Official Courtney Riordan, 45, the acting administrator for research and development, was named to the post permanently. The White House tapped Lee Thomas, 38, to replace the ousted Rita Lavelle as head of the agency's hazardous-waste program. The Administration also created a new congressional-liaison job designed to smooth ruffled relations between...
...would think a Harvard player would be at center ice with his team a man down," says Dempsey. "But he was out there, floating around, and was somehow back there for the score. It was probably the most exciting Beanpot ever." Dempsey chuckles. "I still kid Billy about him being at center...
...first Beanpots because of the excitement of playing in the Garden, because it was B.C., B.U., Harvard and (at that time) a much weaker Northeastern team, because it was a local event with mostly Boston-area kids, because it was, as both Cleary, now Harvard's coach, and Dempsey put it, "a real adrenaline pumper" playing in the Beanpot...