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...Square Garden last Spring. Jones, however, maintains hope for a shot at the champ and will soon fight unranked Alex Koskowits instead, to avoid a further blemish on his record. Jones enthusiasts--and they are scarce--point out that at 185 their boy is no lighter than Marciano or Dempsey when he took the title. But then, Jones is no Marciano. Marciano probably would have lasted no more than ten with Liston, and as for Dempsey, 180 pounds is all that Doug has in common with...
Died. Jack ("Doc") Kearns, 80, boxing promoter behind six world champions, among them Mickey Walker, Joey Maxim, Archie Moore, but none so great -or lucrative-as Jack Dempsey, whom Kearns met in 1917, within two years brought to the championship and later used to drum up the first million-dollar gates (against "Orchid Man" Georges Carpentier, Luis Angel Firpo); after a long illness; in Miami...
...sign it is by writing Karl on the left side, and Earth on the right side of my collar. This is the only white on the picture, and the signature makes me look like a Salvation Army officer. I guess that cover really made me famous, like Jack Dempsey...
...Easing through the crush of persons jamming the Waldorf's four reception rooms, Jack Dempsey said: "This is the toughest fight I've had in a long time." When Comedian Milton Berle introduced Mrs. Dempsey to Mrs. Gene Tunney, he said to the Manassa Mauler's wife: "Your husband knows her husband...
MARGARET TRUMAN DANIEL BETTE DAVIS OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND JACK DEMPSEY CARMINE DE SAPIO THOMAS E. DEWEY OTTO DIBELIUS C. DOUGLAS DILLON EVERETT M. DIRKSEN MICHAEL Di SALLE JOSEPH M. DODGE FREDERIC G. DONNER JAMES H. DOOLITTLE JOHN Dos PASSOS LEWIS DOUGLAS DAVID DUBINSKY ALLEN W. DULLES