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...lowered his hand position after turning pro, and the extra leverage he acquired gave him a ferocious punch. Hearns used the advantage of his reach to flick jabs into Leonard's face, while Leonard, trying to get inside those long arms, was forced to bend until his torso was almost parallel to the canvas, then reach up to keep his punches above the belt. Looking like a man who was stooping down to stick his chewing gum under a table, Leonard took repeated short rights under his left eye. By the third round the eye had begun to swell...
Years before alligator shirts covered every second American torso, long before artifacts of Ivy League style were mass-merchandised, before anyone dreamed of writing an "official handbook," Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel was the premier public place for preppies. Within its vaulting rococo spaces, numberless Princeton boys leered at an endless parade of Vassar girls, while Dartmouth seniors, a little tight, chatted up Smithies. Aging doughboys staggered out of regimental reunions singing. The bubbliness was swell and incessant. Scott Fitzgerald and J.D. Salinger, writing for and about two generations of preppies, each dragged characters through the gilded Palm Court, under...
After Reagan's program triumphed last week, O'Neill tried to hold his ground. He sat in the Speaker's vast office, his huge 260-lb. torso looking like a giant plum pudding, his long white hair falling over his blue eyes. As a television screen in the far corner of the room carried speeches from the House floor, he talked about the rising criticism of his leadership. "It hurts," he said, putting his sinewy hands on his knees. "It hurts a lot." Then he leaned forward in his chair, his massive head thrust out. "Wait till...
...Within minutes, 16 shells exploded in the center of the city, blasting cafés, an amusement hall and a Maronite Christian church. Among the dead were 16 backgammon players in a local café. One survivor was seen running along the road screaming, as he carried the severed torso of a youth...