Article: BOXING: COMMENT - Top ten honour deserves KO blow; Brian Dick steps into the ring and begs to respectfully disagree with those eulogising Lewis.(Sport)

Article: 1927: A YEAR TO REMEMBER LINDBERGH, BABE RUTH, JEROME KERN AND ...
The Boston Globe;  August 3, 1987 ;     700+ words ... ... American public had been spiritually starved," Frederick Lewis Allen wrote in his book "Only Yesterday." "They had seen ... Dempsey, the deposed heavyweight champion, in a rematch with Gene Tunney, the elegant, Shakespeare-quoting former Marine. Tunney ...

Article: Gene Tunney, Not to Be Sold Short After 'Long ...
The Washington Post;  August 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... column of Sept. 24, 1927, on the Gene Tunney-vs.-Jack Dempsey fight, which ... shadows that would becloud his claim, Gene Tunney today stands against the pugilistic ... by past masters. By right of might Gene Tunney proved his claim last night at Soldiers ...

Gene Tunney
Archive Photos;  January 1, 1996 ;     337 words ...Archive Photos 01-01-1996 Gene Tunney Undefeated as a heavyweight, boxer Gene Tunney won the world title from champ Jack Dempsey ... personalities. sports legends. sports. athletics. Gene Tunney. Tunney. boxers. boxing. fighters. prize ...

Article: Wilton author writes knockout book on Gene Tunney
New Haven Register;  December 17, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... Troilus and Cressida. The speaker was Gene Tunney, the former heavyweight champion who ... and already in its second printing, "Gene Tunney: Boxing's Brainiest Champ and His ... Fame referee Arthur Mercante, that Gene Tunney's name came up, and this time, Cavanaugh ...

Article: Boxer Gene Tunney's Widow Dies at 100
AP Online;  April 14, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Polly Lauder Tunney, the Carnegie Steel Co. heiress whose marriage to heavyweight boxing champion Gene Tunney made international headlines in 1928, has died, her family said. She was 100. Tunney, whose husband died in 1978 at age 81 ...

Article: Widow of boxing champion Gene Tunney dies at age ...
AP Worldstream;  April 15, 2008 ;     489 words ...Polly Lauder Tunney, the Carnegie Steel Co. heiress whose marriage to heavyweight boxing champion Gene Tunney made international headlines in 1928, died Saturday. She was 100. Tunney died at her home in Stamford, a son said. Mary Polly ...

Article: Tunney, he reads books.(Reflections From 25 Years of the Sport ...
Aethlon: The Journal of Sport Literature;  September 22, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... this group there is no Cartesian mind/body duality. It is a perfect conjoining of the physical and intellectual--as if Gene Tunney were reciting Shakespeare (and he did), the perfect melding of intellect with the corporeal world. The differences are ...