Word: dougan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heyday of the International Boxing Club's strangle hold on U.S. boxing, Millionaire Sportsman James Dougan Norris ran the show in public, and a slim, grey-haired man named Paul John ("Frankie") Carbo ran a lot of it in private. Breaking up the Norris monopoly was relatively easy for the Justice Department. The underworld dominance of Frankie Carbo was something else again. Few figures in the fight game admitted knowing Carbo or dealing with him in any way. But last July the man known as "Mr. Grey" was finally indicted by a New York grand jury for illegal matchmaking...
...York State Athletic Commissioner Julius Helfand won a clear-cut decision in his fight to disband the Boxing Managers Guild (TIME, Dec. 26). James Dougan Norris, president of the International Boxing Club, announced that he could no longer deal with guild managers, and the guild began to come apart at the seams. One after another, managers who wanted to go on making a living in the boxing racket resigned. By playing ball with Helfand, Norris had put himself back in an old and profitable position-once more he is boss of boxing...
...directors from the board of a big corporation is a pretty good sign that somewhere the gears are clashing. Not so with Manhattan's Madison Square Garden Corp.-or so said resigning Board Chairman Bernard Gimbel last week when he and his old friend and fellow director, James Dougan Norris, fistfight promoter extraordinary, parted financial company...
...reserves have been turned up in Wyoming's Pow der River and Big Horn basins. Promising finds are being developed in the Ute country of adjoining Utah, where the hunt for oil had once been abandoned. But Salt Lake's determined Wildcatter J. L. (Mike) Dougan kept on trying, despite a heartbreaking series of dry holes. Finally, after two years, he brought in Utah's first commercial well. But that wasn't the end of his heartbreak. The oil is so full of wax that it is like Vaseline. But experts found that heating the well...