Word: heavyweights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...heavyweight championship of the world 64 years ago from Jess Willard and lost it seven years later to Gene Tunney, but right up until the day he died last week, many still thought of Jack Dempsey as champion. And one could not think of Dempsey without thinking of Babe Ruth, Bobby Jones, Bill Tilden, Red Grange. Other athletes have survived to 87, but no other period in sport, and maybe not just in sport, has lingered so glamorously long. The '20s not only roared, they remained...
...table at Jack Dempsey's Broadway restaurant in Manhattan, he tried a little barnstorming, some refereeing. Always he was available to bat out an occasional dilettante, like Writer Paul Gallico or Financier J. Paul Getty. After he closed the restaurant in 1974, Dempsey returned full time to being heavyweight champ...
...left) The men's heavyweight crew claimed its first Eastern Sprints title in three years...
...winners, who dread the taxman. Thus the English writer and poker player A. Alvarez (author of another examination of self-destruction, The Savage God: A Study of Suicide) was beguiled when he heard that there was one card room in the world where an observer could watch no-limit, heavyweight poker without getting into the line of fire...
...half years ago when, after playing J.V. hockey, he made his first trek to Newell Boathouse. It was not an auspicious beginning. He started training six months later than his teammates, who had begun in the fall, and Roger was one of the smallest oarsmen out for the heavyweight crew. Still, he could rely on five years experience of rowing in high school and on his willingness to work harder than just about anyone else...