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Another Dempsey contribution to language was "million-dollar gate," his 1921 knockout of Carpentier at Boyle's Thirty Acres in Jersey City being the first. In an unusual result for fighters of any day, he kept some of the money. Before settling into the window 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...
...Carol Channing's cheek at opening-night curtain call, this sort of thing happens with regularity in the theater of fashion. After the show, fans review the designers with the kind of blurbs that usually run in block letters in movie ads. Lagerfeld was tops, Ferre was a knockout, Armani's still the master, Montana was wild, Mugler was a kick, Saint Laurent is still the high priest, and what about these Japanese, anyway? America tends to a greater uniformity of style, mostly because of heavier commercial pressure from a larger market. So Bill Blass becomes classic, Ralph...
...also received an early education in the rigors of competition. While at Du Sable High School, he won the city championship in the 120-yd. high hurdles. At the Civilian Conservation Corps camps, he became a no-nonsense amateur middleweight boxer who won 50 of 60 fights, 15 by knockout. Laughs the mayor-elect today: "I'm a pretty good bare-knuckles fighter...
...Friars threatened a comeback after a late second-period goal, but Harvard delivered the knockout blow in the third Mark Fusco did one of his vintage Bobby Orr imitations, taking it from his own blue line and firing a 50-footer...
Mancini wept, prayed and fretted that he might be next, but made sure that no one got the idea he was retiring. Sugar Ray Robinson spoke for all of the survivors in 1947 at the inquest for Jimmy Doyle. Before the knockout, did Robinson know he had Doyle in trouble? "Sir," Robinson answered softly, "getting people in trouble is my business...