Word: dempseys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twelfth round, Conn's sustained attack had the crowd on its feet, yelling. It was terrific. The fleet-fisted kid had confounded, dumfounded and dazed the greatest champion since Dempsey. On most ringside cards he was leading on points. Louis was obviously worried...
...underdog belt a champion through the ropes is well worth the price of admission. Those who saw Firpo knock Dempsey out of the ring 18 years ago have never forgotten it. Last week, stung with embarrassment at landing on his kinky head, the champion, up at the count of four, came back-a little groggy at first-to blast the young upstart with all he had. In the second round, he gave Baer one of the most terrific poundings ever seen in a prize ring. Baby Baer took it-and in the fifth round brought the crowd to its feet...
Mormon Jack Dempsey and his separated Baptist wife, Hannah Williams, got together to watch their older daughter, Joan, 6, make her first Communion as a Catholic...
Best sequence in Broadcast is almost straight history. Yellowed newsreel shots of the Dempsey-Willard prize fight are used for the apocryphal ringside broadcast that brings fame and riches to Oakie's cat-whisker station. They are a jolting reminder of the scorching Fourth of July in 1919 when the crop-haired Manassa Mauler, then 24, carved a world's heavyweight championship out of mountainous Jess Willard in just three bitter rounds. They are the best refashioning of history ever contrived by Producer Zanuck...
...Jack Dempsey: "The high gift of courage showed out of the slits of his narrow eyes and in his attitude of chill indifference-a gift that was needed, since Miske, his adversary of the afternoon, had nothing at all the matter with him except a little spine disease...