Word: dempseys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...publishing trade confidently expects that U.S. women will be falling all over themselves this fall to buy the book, and find out why in the world Gallico thinks so. Male readers are likely to conclude that ex-Sportwriter Gallico made more sense in his unsentimental story of the second Dempsey-Tunney fight...
...fight, in effect, was for charity. Referee Jack Dempsey gave his services free. Film Comedians Bud Abbott & Lou Costello promoted it as a benefit in aid of the youth foundation established by Costello after his infant son died in 1943. Lightweight Champion Ike Williams, a cool, sharpshooting Negro from New Jersey, whose manager is a good friend of Costello's, took only 7½% of the gate, although Enrique Bolanos, the Mexican-born challenger...
...fourth, with Bolanos still on his feet, his manager jumped into the ring waving a towel. A moment later, the challenger slumped to the canvas and Referee Dempsey stopped the fight. The show would probably not have made an edifying spectacle for Costello's foundation kids, but it proved that Ike Williams still had the lightweight division well in hand...
...strong, good-looking and popular; his hefty right always triumphs, often over eye-gouging, foul-fighting opponents. He hobnobs with a lot of celebrities without getting stuck up. An inveterate name-dropper himself, stocky Cartoonist Fisher populates his strip with real people, e.g., Bing Crosby, Tom Clark, Jack Dempsey, and models many of his fictional characters on other celebrities. Humphrey Pennyworth, an engaging, potbellied giant, was inspired by Manhattan Restaurant-Man Toots Shor...
...finally came. Four months ago Welterweight Foster got his chance in Madison Square Garden. The hard-boiled Garden crowd went wild as Vince savagely carved up clever old Tony Pellone and knocked him out in the seventh round. Sportwriters compared him io Petrolic, even to Jack Dempsey, hailed him as a new, slashing pug who might pull boxing out of the doldrums...