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...Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, which owns and leases the Copley Place air rights, and the Office of State Planning insisted only that Himmel's firm "subject its plans to a vigorous citizen review." Architect Tunney Lee, 52, former chief of planning design at the Boston Redevelopment Authority, was engaged to work with residents. The resulting citizens' review committee held some 50 sessions, attended by 30 to 40 representatives of neighborhood associations and labor, business and civil rights groups. Himmel was glad to cooperate to avoid costly delays, painfully aware that bitter citizen opposition had recently obstructed Park Plaza...
...heavyweight championship of the world 64 years ago from Jess Willard and lost it seven years later to Gene Tunney, but right up until the day he died last week, many still thought of Jack Dempsey as champion. And one could not think of Dempsey without thinking of Babe Ruth, Bobby Jones, Bill Tilden, Red Grange. Other athletes have survived to 87, but no other period in sport, and maybe not just in sport, has lingered so glamorously long. The '20s not only roared, they remained...
...making memories of events that occurred years before they were born, never letting a technicality that slight exclude them from an argument as rich as the "long count" fight of 1927. Failing to withdraw to a neutral corner, as a new rule required after knockdowns, Dempsey inadvertently allowed Tunney perhaps 14 seconds to defog his head in the seventh round and go on to outpoint Jack for a second time. "The best thing that ever happened to both of us was the long count," Dempsey said a few years ago. "Half the people thought he won, the other half thought...
Dempsey never contested either loss to Tunney, a wonderful boxer but a colorless fighter whose unforgivable sins were that he read books and beat Dempsey. "Honey, I forgot to duck," Dempsey told his wife after the first fight, a line President Reagan found use for 55 years later. When Tunney died in 1978 at the age of 80, Dempsey said, "Now I feel alone...
Arcel has frequently referred to Holmes as "the most underrated heavyweight champion in history. He followed that overpowering salesman Muhammad Ali. Gene Tunney beat Jack Dempsey, but Dempsey was still called champ. Ezzard Charles was never forgiven, even by his own people, for beating Louis. It's just time Larry Holmes was recognized as a true and great champion." After all, he has worn the belt for more than four years...