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...high school dropout at 16, he became a self-taught Shakespearean scholar. He was also an intelligent fighter, a master of the sweet science who won the title from Jack Dempsey on a decision in 1926. In their second fight, Tunney was ahead on points when Dempsey decked him, then lost his chance to regain the title when he was slow to go to a neutral corner. Given an extra four seconds to clear his head?the famous Gene Tunney in his prime (1926) Aloof from the Damon Runyon types. "long count"?Tunney got up and outboxed Dempsey...
Kasper is largely self-taught. He took only one shop class, back in seventh grade. "Mr. Castellano was the teacher--dead now, I think. He used to drink a lot of rye during class...
Edwin Land, the self-taught genius who invented instant photography...
...seven-year-old Nancy Lopez, tagging along behind her parents on weekend outings at the Roswell, N. Mex., public golf course. After a year of child's play, Nancy borrowed one of her mother's clubs and started to swipe at the ball. While her father, a self-taught 3-handicap golfer, trudged up the fairways, Nancy stayed behind, as she recalls, "hitting and hitting and hitting, struggling to stay ahead of the next group of grownups." Tournament golf knows no pressure greater than that on a skinny eight-year-old girl sandwiched between adults on a busy...
DIED. Terry Kath, 31, self-taught composer and guitarist for the slick rock-jazz band Chicago; of an accidental, self-inflicted gunshot wound; in Los Angeles. Kath, a native Chicagoan who helped form the popular band eleven years ago, had been drinking with friends when he put what he believed was an unloaded gun to his head and pulled the trigger...