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...stylist than he likes to admit. Bobbing, weaving, ducking, he is an elusive target; he knows how to fight his way out of trouble with furious flurries. "He has every punch in the book." says his admiring coach, J. T. Owen. "And he has that something extra-that Dempsey instinct. He wants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Boxing Safe & Sane | 4/11/1955 | See Source »

Beating Krider into town by a day, Wolfson gave a new set of supporters, inluding Restaurateur Toots Shor, Jack Dempsey and Joe and Dom DiMaggio, a glowing report on the earnings and divi-lend records of his companies. Wolfson aid that he would propose a three-for-one tock split and a 40? quarterly dividend hat would bring stockholders $1.80 more han the present $3 rate. An uproar started when Lewis Gilbert, perennial heckler at many a stockholder meeting, jumped up shouting to be heard. Gilbert wanted o know how Wolfson could tell the press ast October that he controlled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HIGH FINANCE: Near the Bell | 4/4/1955 | See Source »

...born in 1892. But Mrs. Corballis has modern tastes, including Jazz and the Republicans. "I used to be a Democrat," she explains, "but they never did anything for me." To keep up with the world, she reads the American and follows the lives of Tony DeSpirito and Jack Dempsey. "It's good to see Ted Williams back," she added, "we need...

Author: By Harvey J. Wachtel, | Title: The Sweetheart of Cake and Pie | 3/23/1955 | See Source »

After Boston College had tied the score at 4 to 4 on goals by Captain Dick Dempsey at 18:53 and 19:56 of the third period, center Cleary picked up the puck at his own blue line and raced away to score at 1:46 of the sudden-death overtime period...

Author: By Bruce M. Reeves, | Title: Cleary Goal Edges B.C. in Overtime, 5-4 | 2/9/1955 | See Source »

...Dempsey, a youthful 59, briefly wooed a wealthy widow, Mrs. Estelle Auguste. Last week the ex-champ popped up in Miami Beach for a vacation with a new friend: Estelle Allardale, a pretty Californian from Beverly Hills and owner of a woman's-wear shop. Mindful of Jack's old weakness, his friends agreed that they could already hear wedding bells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 7, 1955 | 2/7/1955 | See Source »

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