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Delivering an ex-champion's blunt verdict, Gene Tunney, who won his crown from Jack Dempsey in 1926, called the fight "a terrible hoax," adding that "it's shows like this that are killing boxing." They surely do it no good. In the prefight ballyhoo, everyone had been told to expect a classic which matched Patterson, the swift and stouthearted Good Guy, against Liston, the hulking, oft-arrested...
Lodge's decision left no void among Republicans running for Governor. In the wildest G.O.P. melee in a millennium, there are still six candidates trying for a shot at Democratic Governor John Dempsey, 47, who moved up from Lieutenant Governor last year, when Ribicoff hied himself off to Washington. Dempsey inherited the big tax problems that Ribicoff's costly highway and education pro grams made inevitable. Of the six Republicans, two candidates seem to be ahead: John Alsop, Ivy-clad (Groton and Yale) brother of Writers Stewart and Joseph. Erudite and witty, Alsop - defy ing the cliches...
...England, Republicans should hold their own in Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine: > Connecticut Democrats are bringing Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Abraham Ribicoff back to run for the Senate against Incumbent Republican Prescott Bush. They hope that Ribicoff can carry with him Democratic Governor John Dempsey (four of the state's top Republicans are fighting for the right to run against Dempsey...
...went, all through the day and into the night. Groucho Marx showed up, and so did Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick, Hugh O'Brian, Hugh Downs, Yogi Berra, Whitey Ford, Phil Silvers, Hal March, Jack Dempsey, Rocky Marciano. Kyle Rote. Charley Conerly. Frank Gifford, James A. Farley. Jackie Gleason could not make it, but he sent a mass of fall flowers and a pal's salutation, which began: "Dear Clam Head...
...hours a day over An American in Paris. Promptly at 10 a.m. every Sunday, Hemingway rumbled in to sip his customary tank of whisky sours. The Dolly Sisters made it a port of call, and so did Bill Tilden, Knute Rockne, Jimmy Walker, Lou Gehrig, Vincent Sheean, Jack Dempsey, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. To casual travelers, and more importantly to American expatriates in the '20s and early '30s, Harry's New York Bar in Paris was a singular institution-a home away from home, a living shrine to U.S. booze, and the only place in Paris where...