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...corner raged undefeated retired Heavyweight Champ (1926-28) Gene Tunney, ably seconded by Polly, his socialite wife of 30 years. His opponent: burly Yugoslav Dictator Tito, a canny pro at the political bob-and-weave. Occasion of the scrap: Tunney's second honeymoon, which the ex-champ, now a capitalist and director of many corporations, wanted to spend on the wooded Adriatic isle of Brioni, location of Tito's many-splendored summer place. "Thirty years ago," said Gene, "my wife and I spent most of our honeymoon on Brioni...
Obligingly had Florida's Bade County Metro Commission voted to legalize gambling in the Miami area after ex-Heavyweight Champ Jack Dempsey, 63. now a heavy 250 or so, stepped up to say that he and some Manhattan backers had $1,000.-ooo to open a casino. But both Bade and Bempsey went down for the count when word of the project reached Governor...
...Azrael's comparative study of industrialization's social effects in Russia and the U.S. University officials have promised complete freedom of study, and the Americans have been warmly accepted socially. In one friendly bull session, a U.S. economist had even tried to convince a horrified Soviet wrestling champ that Americans do not really hold maul-and-maim contests in which the object is to kill one's opponent...
...lose and everything to win, and he played that way. Tall and rangy (6 ft. 2 in., 185 Ibs.), he banged out drives of 250 yds., canned his putts with ease and never trailed an opponent, including Quarter Finalist Dick Chapman, former U.S. (1940) and British (1951) Amateur champ. "The greens are like billiard tables," chuckled Tommy. "All you have to do is start the ball rolling and it goes right into the hole...
When young Aaron started the ball rolling the next day in the finals, he looked like a winner. He was two up after eleven holes. Coe confessed to being "mentally fatigued" and looked worn-out physically. But Charlie Coe has the stuff of a champ. Doggedly he put his swing back in joint, and poured on the pressure. By the 26th hole, the Georgia kid was three-putting greens, wallowing in sand-traps, ricocheting off trees. Coe eased his aching bones home to win, 5 and 4, by dropping a 25-ft. putt on the 32nd green...