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...grand novel, was John Gregory Dunne's True Confessions. Taking as his real-life hook the grisly (and unsolved) Black Dahlia murder case, in which a young woman of no particular virtue was found here and there in a vacant Los Angeles lot in 1947, Dunne created characters who jumped, kicked and back-stabbed off the page. The Spellacy brothers-Detective Tom and Monsignor Des-played each other like a couple of harps and took down half the town's power elite when they played each other wrong. Dunne's was a misanthropic story that moved with...
...brief exchanges. But if Hearns' potential knockout punch was a bomb ticking, so was Leonard's blinding hand speed and his capacity to exploit an opening. In the sixth round, Hearns dropped his right hand too far, and Leonard swooped into the opening with a savage left hook. Hearns was rocked back on his heels and, suddenly wobbly, retreated to the ropes. While Hearns reeled, Leonard swarmed over him, throwing dozens of punches. Hearns absorbed the blows to his body, but then, as soon as he dropped his arms to cover his midsection, Leonard showered combinations...
...13th round, Leonard somehow managed to see an opening when Hearns again dropped his hands. After throwing a right lead, he pounded home another left hook that buckled Hearns. Leonard bore in now with furious uppercuts that set Hearns' head up as a target for withering combinations. Chased to the ropes, Hearns finally went down and out onto the apron of the ring, climbing back in to stand for the next assault. Once more-he was knocked into the ropes, but the round ended as Referee Davey Pearl reached the eight count...
When the bell rang for the 14th round, Leonard came out of his corner like a shot, racing over to tag Hearns with a huge left hook before the Hit Man could step out of his path. After 1 min. 45 sec. of blows that Hearns was powerless to return, Referee Pearl stopped the fight. Hearns, who had been ahead on points with all three judges at that moment, looked on incredulously. "I thought I was in pretty much control," he protested later. Said Angelo Dundee, Leonard's manager: "Tommy Hearns was out of it. He didn...
...Court," says James Bryce in The American Commonwealth, "feels the touch of public opinion." That is for sure, and there is a further truth: public opinion, or incensed parts of it, sometimes tries to reach the federal judiciary with a bit more than a touch-with a brisk left hook, say, or a fast right cross. One of those times is at hand: congressional leaders of the New Right are avidly mounting a serious assault on the power, authority and prestige of the federal courts...