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...ironworking, to rearing children. The amalgam amounted to walking a narrow beam at attention. Sometimes Eileen Cooney wonders if her sons did not see gyms as sanctuaries. The challenger's mother is a tall, robust woman, oldfashioned, sort of flusterable, and nice. Her grandmother was acquainted with Gene Tunney's family in Ireland and compelled her as a child to keep still whenever boxing was on the radio. (Today she keeps still when attending her son's fights, peeking up only when the crowd noises are favorable...
...Fade-In. Ragtime piano, please. Former Heavyweight Champ Gene Tunney has long since hung up his Everlasts for a career in business by the time his son is born. The kid spars a bit as a youngster but eventually picks politics over pugilism, becoming California Senator John Tunney, 47. The Hook. John, now an ex-Senator, is asked to portray his late father in Sting II, the follow-up to the 1973 original, The Sting. It stars Jackie Gleason, 65, and Mac Davis, 40, in the snap-brim, wing-tipped, confidence-man roles created by Paul Newman and Robert Redford...
Sometimes two fighters come together in a clinch, and no one can break them. They are connected forever, hyphenated. Dempsey-Tunney. Graziano-Zale. They end up with one name. They end up, pretty much, with each other. Back in gyms and rings last week, refusing to go away-that is, stay away-Ali-Frazier is having a hard time ending...
Boxing and Tommy Rawson have been good friends for over half a century. Harvard's boxing coach has lived pugilism: coaching, boxing and refereeing New England fights since the days of Gene Tunney and Joe Louis...
...compulsion of another sort drives Schism (Crown; 310 pages; $12.95), by Bill Granger. Father Leo Tunney, a Roman Catholic missionary and sometime CIA operative, totters back to civilization from the Cambodian jungle, where he has been missing for 20 years. Why? Before shipping him back to his order in Florida, the Company does its unsubtle best to pry the answer from the emaciated priest. Back home, Tunney attracts a lot of professional interest. There is a top KGB operative from Moscow, a sacerdotal snooper from the Vatican, a cold-blooded loner from...