Word: dempsey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cigar-chewing patriarch of Stillman's Gym, for 38 years a monument to the prizefight game; in Santa Barbara, Calif. With an epic command of abusive language and a pistol in his pocket, Stillman presided from 1921 to 1959 over the gloomy New York City arena where Jack Dempsey, Georges Carpentier and Primo Camera-among thousands of others-worked out during their careers. "Big or small, champ or bum," he said, "I treated 'em all alike -bad. If you treat 'em like humans, they'll eat you alive...
...July, Governor John Dempsey signed a broad new penal code that becomes effective in October...
Died. General Sir Miles Dempsey, 72, British infantry officer who commanded the rear guard at Dunkirk, and led the British Second Army when it stormed Normandy's Gold, Juno and Sword beaches in 1944 but later passed up offers of higher command and resigned because "I have spent too much of my life smashing things up"; in Yattendon, England, precisely 25 years after Dday...
...Dempsey described the first round: "I hit him with a left hook on his cheek bone and temple. It busted his eye open and down he went, shaking the ring like an earthquake. I felt like I wanted to get down there on the deck on top of him and beat him some more. But then he started to get up. I stood right over him and beat him to the canvas again. And again. And again. These were the rules in those days...
Those days, when a fighter did not have to go to a neutral corner after a knockdown, are over. Willard did not have a chance, and for the remainder of his life he bitterly accused Dempsey of carrying "a bolt" or "chunks of cement" in his gloves. In all, Willard scored 20 knockouts in 36 fights. If he was not a truly legendary champion, it was perhaps because he lacked one essential ingredient. As he once said: "I never wanted to hurt anybody...