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...caved in, released a list of 326 subagents who got pieces of the commission cake. Total subagent payments over the past four years came to $367,000. John M. Golden, Connecticut's Democratic national committeeman, got $4,000. Robert J. Beckwith, a top aide of Democratic Governor John Dempsey, collected $7,225. Bailey's son-in-law got $7,750. Bailey's son and daughter did pretty well too. When asked how much they had collected in dividends on their Kelly stock. Bailey had refused to give any figures, said the amount was "surprisingly small." Last week...
Sports: Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney, Joe Louis, Vince Lombardi, Jackie Robinson...
...Louisville, the gate was 3,500 and $12,000 when he kayoed Alex Mitoff. In Los Angeles, 12,000 fans watched him knock out Alejandro Lavorante in the fifth round. "I only wish." sighed a California matchmaker, "that Cassius Clay were quadruplets." Even Jack Dempsey was impressed: "I don't care if this kid can't fight a lick. I'm for him. Things are live again...
...like that in the old days, when there were fights worth going to and fighters worth talking about. Then the mob gathered on Jacobs Beach, the sidewalk at 49th and Broadway. Now they sit at grey Formica tables in the Garden Cafeteria gulping matzo-ball soup, or at Jack Dempsey's bar sipping Rob Roys. Promoter Jack Solomon was in from London to see the fight. Lester Collins, ten years a manager and now a California businessman flew to New York because "I heard so much about Clay I had to find out if he's really that...
...Jones, a black fireplug of a man, in a yellow and purple robe. The crowd cheered. Then the spot swung around and picked up Clay, dressed all in white-white robe, white trunks, white shoes. The crowd hooted. There was warm applause for the ring introductions-Gene Tunney, Jack Dempsey, Sugar Ray Robinson, Rocky Graziano, Barney Ross, Dick Tiger-champions all. Then more boos for Clay. And still more, as he danced and waved and made faces at his tormentors...