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...week's cover story on Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees marks the goth time that a figure in the sports world has been on the cover of TIME. The first athlete to appear was a hard-jawed, 28-year-old mauler by the name of Jack Dempsey. That was in September 1923. Two weeks later, he fought his famous match with Luis Angel ("Bull") Firpo, at which boxing fans paid a total of $1,888,822 to see Dempsey retain his world heavyweight championship in 3 minutes, 57 seconds of furious fighting...
...when the TIME story on Dempsey appeared, Kennedy was a husky four-year-old punching his way through nursery school in Worcester, Mass. At Loomis prep school he resigned from the tennis team to organize a golf team. (He now shoots in the high 705 and feels that an ideal vacation is 36 holes of golf every day of the week.) After graduating from Brown University, he joined the Navy as an apprentice seaman, started his training as a "90day wonder," and elected to fight the war in small boats. He got his wish: skipper of a PT boat...
Bellows' bittersweet quality comes clear in the two pictures (opposite) that are favorites with gallerygoers in Manhattan and Bellows' home town of Columbus, Ohio. The Whitney Museum's Dempsey and Firpo shows Bellows at his toughest- hard, sweaty, and as direct as a left jab. He was at ringside with a commission from the New York Journal to draw the fight. He chose the instant when Firpo nailed the overconfident champion, sent him through the ropes and into the ringside seats. Children on the Porch, at the Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, shows Bellows on the opposite...
...Emporia, Kans. to referee a wrestling match, Jack Dempsey, pausing in his steak dinner, joined a curbside crowd and watched a three-man slugfest. Finally, someone called the cops and the scrappers called it a draw. Said Jack: "Best darn fight I've seen in years...
...State Athletic Commission, president of the Pony Baseball Leagues (for boys from 12 to 15), and the donor of a sports trophy room to U.C.L.A. containing such mementos as Babe Ruth's bat and the trunks Gene Tunney wore the night he won the championship from Jack Dempsey. Joe thinks he is the only man living to have two athletic fields named after him: one in his home town of Hoigate, Ohio, the other at U.C.L.A., which has made him an honorary undergraduate (Joe never got beyond the ninth grade...