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...seemed to reflect Cooney's amateurishness rather than viciousness, not to mention a frantic desire to connect with his left hook. "Cooney was tired," said Referee Lane. "He said 'I'm sorry' a couple of times." In the prefight noisiness and nastiness, Cooney Manager Dennis Rappaport, a newcomer to boxing who may be better suited to wrestling, predicted that Holmes would be "thumbing" and raised the specter of retaliatory low blows and a "back-alley brawl." Ray Arcel, the 82-year-old trainer who along with Eddie Futch prepared Holmes, replied gently to Rappaport...
When he inexplicably found it again after about a year, two Long Island real estate men found him and began to manage and market the Irish puncher as, in the way real estate men would naturally put it, "a hot property." The phrase is more like Dennis Rappaport, 36, the gaudier member of the firm, than Mike Jones, 46. Both men seem curiously proud of the nickname, "The Whacko Twins," earned in a number of ways. When their first fighter, black Middleweight Ronnie Harris, converted to Judaism, they sued to allow him to wear his yarmulka in the ring. They...
...Rappaport, 71, and Geetie Strumwasser, 65, who are sisters, have been summering in Atlantic City since they were in diapers. Rappaport's husband died two years ago, but Geetie's husband Lou, 66, whom she met on the beach near by in 1933, is with her now. Lou, who was born in Atlantic City, remembers walking on the girders of Convention Hall, where the Miss America contest is held, when it was being built in the late...
JEROME L. RAPPAPORT...
...successful farmer today must understand enough engineering and science to participate in a technological upheaval that is changing the very shape of the land and the nature of his crops. Says Lawrence Rappaport, chairman of the department of vegetable crops at the University of California at Davis: "Agriculture is now in perpetual revolution, and there is no end in sight." People flying over the West and Midwest see an unusual pattern on the terrain below: not the familiar farm land with checkerboard squares, but large polka dots, the result of costly ($50,000 each) center-pivot irrigation machines that automatically...