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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inevitably a virgin is seduced (twice in fact it's so funny) and a teetotalling bar-smasher gets roaring drunk, but this particular show extends its faithfulness to formula a bit too far. Individual lines like "you boys couldn't flatten out a wrinkled postage stamp" ring a little hollow. I wondered during the first act whether the show would stoop to the Beach Party level of repartee with one character emphatically commenting "You can say that again," and his buddy really saying it again. It was there all right, a little dressed up, but dismally there all the same...
From there, Lamar's career in the ring became a series of successes. He was national AAU light-heavyweight champion for two years running, 1926-27, boxed in the Pan-Americans, and finally turned...
Lamar suffered only one defeat in his ring career, in the quarterfinals of a tournament to decide the new World Champion after Gene Tunney retired from the ring. He was TKO'd by Jim Maloney, who then lost to the eventual winner, Jack Sharkey...
Lamar retired from the ring soon after he began coaching at Harvard. "I decided that professional boxing and Harvard didn't go together," he says. But Lamar didn't abandon the pros altogether. He was boxing commissioner for the Commonwealth from 1956 to 1963, and simultaneously served as executive secretary of the National Boxing Association...
Entering the third and final round in the 175-pound bout, Army's undefeated J.B. Wells held a commanding point lead over Harvard's Gordie Robertson. Wells could have turned his back and run around the ring for two minutes and still won," Lamar recalls...