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Article: BIOGRAPHY OF JACK DEMPSEY PAINTS BOXER IN A GENTLER LIGHT.(Lifestyle)(Review)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- December 30, 1999
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Jack Dempsey, the brutal ``Manassa Mauler'' of the 1920s, not only helped make boxing a big-time sport, but he also helped turn sports into a big business. He belonged, along with Babe Ruth, Red Grange, Bobby Jones and Johnny Weissmuller, to the so-called golden age of sports, and he is remembered to this day for his unaccommodated ferocity in the ring.
In his new authorized biography, ``A Flame of Pure Fire,'' Roger Kahn gives us a kinder, gentler Dempsey. Although Kahn - a friend of the fighter, who died in 1983 - talks of Dempsey's ``snarling intensity'' in the ring, he also deems him ``a cold professional, a gorgeous craftsman.''
In addition Kahn ...