Word: hogans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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DeSapio reportedly secured the Democratic Senatorial nomination for District Attorney Frank Hogan over the objections of Harriman and Mayor Wagner, who both allegedly preferred either Thomas K. Finletter, former Secretary of the Air Force, or Thomas E. Murray, former Atomic Energy Commissioner...
Okon Bassey Asuquo is the son of a Nigerian farmer and a Member of the Order of the British Empire. He received this accolade from Queen Elizabeth last year, after, as Hogan ("Kid") Bassey, he reduced a French-Algerian pugilist named Cherif Hamia to bloody stupor and became the featherweight champion of the world. In the measured tones appropriate when speaking of an M.B.E., his English manager George Biddles declared, shortly after Bassey's first title defense: "I rather fancy that Hogan will be about some time as featherweight champion." In Los Angeles last week, the prophecy foundered...
...Hogan planned to make his next title defense in 1960 in Lagos. Nigeria, to celebrate the scheduled independence of his homeland. Now he will have to get the title back first...
Wednesday Night Fights (ABC, 10 p.m.). Two good mixers: World Featherweight Champion Hogan ("Kid") Bassey of Nigeria risking his title against Ohioan Davey Moore in Los Angeles...
Whitman currently teaches Greek A, and two Greek literature courses. Alfred heads Humanities 3, "Crisis and the Individual," and lectures in Early English Literature. He has written a play, "Hogan's Goal," on the problems of evil, and man's essential aloneness...