Word: prizefighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Humphrey had been prepared for no such sudden crisis. He did not expect Carter to win so resoundingly in Pennsylvania. Flying around Minnesota to speak at his party's district nominating conventions, Humphrey raised the rafters as he tore into Gerald Ford. It was like being at a prizefight; oldtimers said that Humphrey had never sounded better, and that pleased him. In his speeches, Humphrey's final line always brought his audience cheering to its feet. If his party wanted him as its nominee, he told them, he was now at the fullness of his life and never...
Died. Eddie Dowling, 81, Pulitzer-prizewinning producer and virtuoso of such other theatrical arts as playwrighting, songwriting, directing, dancing and acting; in Smithfield, R.I. Young Eddie, the 14th of 17 children, supplemented the family treasury with pennies earned doing a song-and-dance act in barroom doorways and in prizefight rings between bouts in Woonsocket and Lincoln, R.I. In 1919 he made his Broadway debut in The Velvet Lady, quickly followed by the Ziegfeld Follies of 1919, starring Will Rogers and Fannie Brice. Eventually turning to producing, Dowling in 1937 won acclaim for Shakespeare's Richard II, with Maurice Evans...
...could win a prizefight with scowls instead of punches, mean Marceline Alicea would have had no trouble dispatching young Jackie Smith at the Harvard Club's annual boxing might last night...
...Jack Dempsey is still not a man to count out, as his landlords have learned. It seems that the Inch Corp., a real-estate holding company, bought the building that houses Jack Dempsey's restaurant, a Broadway landmark for tourists and the prizefight crowd, in 1967. Since then, Inch has tried to evict Jack on the grounds that his lease is no longer valid. Taking him to court in June 1973, Inch was outpointed when Dempsey won the ruling. Bouncing back, Inch sued again in December. Last week a judge again gave Dempsey the decision. Even as Jack savored...
...lives quietly with his wife Alyce, an accomplished pianist, and their two daughters in Beverly Hills. A sports fan, he gets to every prizefight and Los Angeles Lakers game he can manage. He plays golf in the low 80s and is a self-confessed "pool junkie" who cut himself off cold turkey a few years ago. "I liked it too much," he says. Now he spends his spare time developing a recently discovered talent for drawing...