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Jensen's Gym. Afterward came the expected promise that Sugar Ray will try again in a return match with Fullmer. But only stubborn pride can suggest that he will ever do any better against the tireless young elder of the Mormon Church who, true to his faith, has never touched tobacco or whisky. Gene Fullmer was named for his parents' idol, gentleman Gene Tunney (whose real name is James Joseph), but he grew up to admire a different type of heavyweight, man-eater Jack Dempsey. At the age of eight he decided he wanted to become a prizefighter...
...scouts, too, were interested not in the score-21-7 for the South-but in the talent arrayed before them. Some of the best college seniors were absent, or already drafted for the pros, or both. Alabama's stubborn refusal to let a Negro play with white men cheated the spectators out of a chance to see jolting Jim Brown, who had looked magnificent in Syracuse's 28-27 loss to T.C.U. in the Cotton Bowl, but Brown had already been drafted by Cleveland. Iowa's Kenny Ploen, star of the Hawkeyes' 35-19 win over...
While the U.S. was formulating its new policy for the Middle East, the State Department was busy hammering away at stubborn old problems. Last week...
...with some 20.000 volumes-which ranged from rare editions of Copernicus and Francis Bacon to the best sin gle private collection of works about the Southwest-Mr. De assumed a country-boy pose, pshawed that he bought the books for the pretty red bindings, never read a thing. Tough, stubborn, quizzical, Mr. De delighted in pulling such switches; he could sound in turn like a reactionary, a radical, an ignoramus or a bohemian. As an unpredictable intellectual, he singlehandedly derricked the foundering Saturday Review of Literature out of a hole in 1941 with a check for $22,500 (and when...
...exchange, dwindled to nothing, and to the dismay of Viet Nam's farmers, the domestic price of rice fell to its lowest level in years. Large-scale shipments of Chinese capital to Hong Kong sent the price of gold and black-market dollars soaring in Viet Nam. But stubborn Ngo Dinh Diem had no intention of backing down...