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...latest of the last of the big fights, Marvin Hagler and Tommy Hearns argued vehemently for and against boxing, proving both positions. It was horrible and magnificent. The first round is being called the best ever, though there have been a few fights before and Dempsey-Firpo was well received in 1923. Even retreating, Hearns slugged boldly. Hagler was a monster. He swears, "I love the boxing game like a little boy," though this was far from the effect. "I love the smell," he says, even of his own blood, diluting his sweat like a hemorrhage in a sink, rendering...
Like Sugar Ray Leonard against Roberto Duran, Hearns selected masculinity for a style, if the choice was his. "I started out slugging because I had to, it was there," he insists. "Marvin started running in. I had to protect myself." Like Duran, Hearns learned the leaden lesson of moving a few pounds up, in his case from 154 lbs. to 160, where men no longer fall apart when you hit them...
Before it was over for Hearns, it was almost ended for Hagler. When Referee Richard Steele paused to have the ringside physician re-examine the champion's wound, a bolt of fear struck the Petronelli brothers in Hagler's corner. But the doctor's brisk finding was that Marvin could see all right, and Goody Petronelli felt a strange sensation of calm. He and Pat first encountered Hagler when he walked softly into their gym in Brockton, Mass., as a 16-year-old, a child of Newark who happened to find himself living in Rocky Marciano's home town. They...
...profoundly beyond the goddess fad that has captured our imaginations for years [March 21]. The piety and deepest consciousness of a human being seek a feminine face, especially in a world whose cultures are saturated with patriarchy. Thank you for helping to rescue Mary from passive neglect. (The Rev.) Marvin E. Repinski Austin, Minnesota...
...SPAN wants to cover him, let them cover him,” said Marvin Kalb, a senior fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy and a signatory. “But C-SPAN should not be balancing the Holocaust with a denier...