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Marriage Revealed. Jack Dempsey, 65. former world's heavyweight boxing champion, now a restaurateur and business promoter; and Deanna Pietelli. 38, a Manhattan jewelry store operator; he for the fourth time, she for the second. The place: "In the East" 18 months ago, according to Dempsey, who explained, "It hasn't been any secret. My wife just didn't want any publicity, that...
Died. Luis Angel ("The Wild Bull of the Pampas") Firpo, 65, Argentine heavyweight, who in 1923 in boxing's greatest first round, decked Champion Jack Dempsey and later belted him clear out of the ring, but was floored seven times himself and finally finished after three more knockdowns in the second round; of a heart attack; in Buenos Aires. When Dempsey later visited Firpo, who became a wealthy cattleman, with 10,000 head on six Argentine ranches, he commented: "When a boxer leaves the ring ... he has lost the fight. In my heart, Firpo was world champion...
Johansson-Patterson Prefight Program (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). Fight Fan James Cagney interviews the two heavyweights on the eve of their return bout; films of Johansson's earlier victory over Patterson are technically analyzed by Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney...
Died. John Lardner, 47, eldest of Humorist Ring Lardner's four sons, war correspondent, sports columnist for Newsweek, television and occasional drama critic for The New Yorker, essayist and satirist (It Beats Working, Strong Cigars and Lovely Women), who published his first work-a poem on Jack Dempsey and Babe Ruth (" . . . both sultans of swat; one hits where other people are, the other where they're not")-when he was eleven, in Columnist Franklin P. Adams' "Conning Tower"; of a heart attack, while writing about F.P.A.'s death (see PRESS) ; in Manhattan...
Show of the Month (CBS, 8:30-10 p.m.) An old standby, Body and Soul. Ex-Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey, as technical adviser, will try to make Ben Gazzara look like the middleweight champion of the world...