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Born. To Mrs. Wayne C. ("Big") Munn, wife of the famed heavyweight wrestler (see SPORT just above) a daughter (11 Ibs.); at Kansas City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 4, 1926 | 1/4/1926 | See Source »

...Kansas City, Andre Andersen, heavyweight Chicago boxer, landed a terrific smash upon the jaw of Wayne ("Big") Munn, noted wrestler and onetime wrestling champion of the world, who had thought he would like to break into the boxing game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Munn Out | 1/4/1926 | See Source »

...smash came two minutes after the opening gong. It knocked Munn out. It knocked all idea of boxing from his stout head. When he recovered consciousness he gasped: "I'll stick to wrestling hereafter. I'll do no more boxing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Munn Out | 1/4/1926 | See Source »

...little group, assembled in the offices of his magazine in the Woolworth Building, Manhattan, stirred uneasily. Each phrase read by Editor Wright came from one of 284 epistles which were being expertly opened by Publisher Orson D. Munn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fakery | 11/23/1925 | See Source »

...Michigan City, Strangler Lewis sprang upon Wayne ("Big") Munn (TIME, Jan. 19), called the "Collegian" because he refutes every sneer at his excessive stupidity with the retort that he is a college graduate Neither could see very well. The Strangler's little red eyes had been inflamed by getting resin in them. Munn had a patch over his left eye which had been butted. After losing the first fall, Lewis applied 20 headlocks, hoisted the collegian over his shoulder, threw him over the canvas as a chambermaid throws a sheet over a bed. He took the third fall after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wrestling | 6/8/1925 | See Source »

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