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Though Actress Wood is everything anybody could ask (5 ft. 2 in., 98 Ibs.) of a cute little trick, she can hardly fill the billing (5 ft. 9½ in., 130 Ibs.) of the lusty, busty broad who was known as "the Gene Tunney of burlesque." But thanks to Director Mervyn LeRoy, the show itself is remarkably well-built-big and brassy, loud and fast. As for Actress Russell, she defies description...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Momma | 11/16/1962 | See Source »

Delivering an ex-champion's blunt verdict, Gene Tunney, who won his crown from Jack Dempsey in 1926, called the fight "a terrible hoax," adding that "it's shows like this that are killing boxing." They surely do it no good. In the prefight ballyhoo, everyone had been told to expect a classic which matched Patterson, the swift and stouthearted Good Guy, against Liston, the hulking, oft-arrested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Two Minutes of Nothing | 10/5/1962 | See Source »

...turned down by Harvard law school. He planned to go to Stanford, but his father decreed that he should stay in the East. He ended up at the University of Virginia law school, where Bobby had compiled an excellent record. Only an average student, Teddy teamed with Varick Tunney, son of Gene Tunney, to win the school's competition in simulated court cases. Teddy also distinguished himself by winning a beautiful wife. Blonde Joan Bennett, daughter of a New York City advertising executive, was attending Manhattanville College, where two of the Kennedy sisters had gone. Teddy and Joan were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Teddy & Kennedyism | 9/28/1962 | See Source »

...quartet of ex-champions who testified in Washington. Undefeated Rocky Marciano called it "absolutely essential"; normally closemouthed Joe Louis said it would prevent states like New York, the worst case he could think of, from giving gangsters "a chance to get a hold on boxers"; old Ring Foes Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey agreed that it would help boxing, now "on its last legs." to purge "unsavory" elements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 9, 1961 | 6/9/1961 | See Source »

...boxers never dive; they just fade away into legitimate businesses. Last week James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, 62, world heavyweight champion from 1926 until he retired as an undefeated millionaire in 1928, was elected a director of Alleghany Corp., which is presumably strengthening its corner for a proxy fight with Texas' hard-swinging Murchison brothers (TIME, Oct. 3). In another corner, Rocky (Somebody Up There Likes Me) Graziano, 38, middleweight champion of a decade ago, was named president of a Long Island bowling center owned by New York's Acme Missiles & Construction Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 10, 1960 | 10/10/1960 | See Source »

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