Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Onetime Heavyweight Champ Jack Dempsey paused in Montreal to give the citizens a warning "while there's still time. Television is ruining sports promoters in the States. It is ruining boxing and wrestling . . . Keep it out of here...
Died. Joe Gould, 53, manager of prizefighters, including onetime Heavyweight Champion James J. ("Jersey Jim") Braddock-with whom he never signed a formal contract until the title bout with Max Baer, relying instead on a simple handshake agreement; of leukemia; in Manhattan...
James J. ("Big Jim") Jeffries, 75, heavyweight champ who was knocked flat in 1910 by Jack Johnson, the first Negro champ, observed that the fight game has become so sissified that "I'd rather see a wrestling match . . . Lots of these kids fighting now would make damn good ping-pong players...
Married. Hannah Williams Kahn Dempsey, 37, onetime musicomedienne (1937's Hooray for What? with Ed Wynn), and Thomas J. Monaghan, 38, nightclub entertainer; she for the third time (No. 1: Roger Wolff Kahn, son of the late Financier Otto; No. 2: Heavyweight Restaurateur William Harrison ("Jack") Dempsey), he for the second; in Los Angeles...
With the hustle of a heavyweight champion's entourage heading for Pompton Lakes, Harry Truman and his retinue filed aboard the presidential yacht Williamsburg this week and glided south down Chesapeake Bay toward Key West, Fla. The destroyer William C. Lawe steamed along nearby, carrying Secret Service men, newsmen and photographers...