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Harvard boxing fans may not get to wince with their favorite pugilist this year after yesterday's 9-2 decision by the House athletic secretaries to cut boxing from the intramural sports program. There is still hope, however, that public bouts may yet be held in conjunction with the physical education program...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Athletic Secretaries Cut Boxing From Intramural Sports, by 9-2 Vote | 2/28/1973 | See Source »

...Washington is not going soft. The precedent is almost too obvious. During the '50s, it was Vice President Nixon who played the blue-jowled meanie to Eisenhower's statesman. Lyndon Johnson occasionally used Hubert Humphrey in similar fashion. Now it is Agnew's turn to be pugilist, and he seems to be enjoying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vice Presidency: Agnew Unleashed | 10/31/1969 | See Source »

Fearless Jack is a well-knit 49-year-old fellow with a pugilist's jaw, who knows how to handle himself when things get rough in the men's washroom. The potential opposition was either cool or only slightly smoldering, however. "We give our critics a free hand," said Managing Editor Turner Catledge, betraying no surprise at Critic Gould's intrafamilial sabotage. "Our first obligation is to our readers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Cactus Jack | 10/11/1963 | See Source »

...bunch of the beards were whooping it up at a Greenwich Village Java saloon called The Bitter End and one of the poems recited was Ode to a Champion: Cassius Marcellus Clay. Its author? Who else but Prosodic Pugilist Cassius Marcellus Clay, 20, getting ready for his Madison Square Garden skirmish this week with Heavyweight Doug Jones. Quoth Cassius: "The word's been passed around that I'm a very charming guy./ the greatest fighter that ever lived,/ and I'll gladly tell you why . . ." Of course if he turned out to be wrong, Cassius could just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Mar. 15, 1963 | 3/15/1963 | See Source »

...Foul!" roared ex-pugilist Sir Roy We-lensky, all 282 Ibs. of him aquiver with rage. "The British government has ratted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Central Africa: Then There Were Two | 12/28/1962 | See Source »

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