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Like the Dempsey-Tunney long count and Jack Johnson's infamous dive against Jess Willard, this Liston-Clay fight will remain a subject of continuing controversy. Could a healthy Sonny Liston have made good his promise to cool Cassius in rounds two or three? This question can only be answered by a rematch...
...have more first-class Wagnerian singers now than we had in the Melchior-Flagstad era. In the last few years the Metropolitan Opera has offered us such topnotch artists as Birgit Nilsson, Leonie Rysanek, Gladys Kuchta, Inge Bjoner, Regine Crespin and Anita Valkki, sopranos; Jon Vickers, Sandor Konya and Jess Thomas, tenors; Jean Madeira, Nell Rankin and Irene Dalis, mezzos; George London, Hermann Prey, Walter Cassel and Eberhardt Wachter, baritones; and Jerome Hines, Giorgio Tozzi and William Wilderman, bassos...
Died. Tex O'Rourke, 77, magnificently mustachioed wit and bon viveur, a onetime Texas Ranger, boxer (his manager: Bat Masterson), fight manager (his tiger: Jess Willard, who kayoed Heavyweight Champion Jack Johnson in 1915), and since 1937, "chief executioner of fall guys" for the ego-busting Circus Saints and Sinners; following prostatic surgery; in Manhattan. Of Ike he once said: "The greatest warrior from Kansas since Carry Nation." Of Kennedy: "I thought the new President wasn't likely to make any mistakes-that they were all made. But I underestimated...
...embracing "all of the redeemed of all ages," which conservatives considered too ecumenical in nature. They shunned a resolution to censure the Kansas City's Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, where Elliott had taught. The consensus was that the split was painful, and perhaps profoundly damaging. Said the Rev. Jess Moody of West Palm Beach. Fla., a popular orator of TV fame: "The biggest issue is not all this ecclesiastical falderal. History may record that America died because its spiritual wellsprings dried up, due to the fact the churches were fighting over the wrong issues. The gut issue is what...
...week's two most important debuts ∙Tenor Jess Thomas, 35, sang Walther in the Met's production of Die Meistersinger, and should have won a pocketful of raves. In the demanding role, his voice soared in steady flight above the stentorian heaviness of the Wagnerian orchestra: after the ardors of two long acts, he still had a great reservoir of lyric beauty left for the Prize Song that finishes the performance-and finishes the pretensions of a good many tyro tenors with it. A big (6 ft. 3 in.) and muscular South Dakotan, Thomas may well...