DEMPSEY, JACK

(William Harrison Dempsey), 1895–1983, American boxer, b. Manassa, Colo. Dempsey, called the "Manassa Mauler," emerged from fights on saloon floors near mining camps to become (1919) the world's heavyweight champion and one of the major sports figures of the 1920s. He sealed his slugging reputation in his first title fight by knocking down the gigantic champion, Jess Willard, seven times in the first three minutes. Dempsey held the crown until losing to Gene Tunney in 1926. In a rematch Dempsey knocked Tunney down in the seventh round, but failed to immediately return to his corner, thus allowing Tunney the benefit of a legendary 14-second "long count." After retirement, he worked occasionally as a referee and spent nearly four decades as proprietor of a popular New York City restaurant.

See R. Roberts, The Manassa Mauler (1979); R. Kahn, A Flame of Pure Fire (1999).

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Radio Drama in Action: Twenty-Five Plays of a Changing World
Includes: Columbus Day; Will This Earth Hold?; The Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto; Mister Ledford and the TVA; Open Letter on Race Hatred; Bretton Woods; The Last Day of the War; A Child Is Born; The Halls of Congress; Radioman Jack Cooper; Concerning the Red Army; Inside a Kid's Head; London by Clipper; Japanese-Americans; The Lonesome Train; The "Boise"; Grandpa and the Statue; Booker T. Washington in Atlanta; North Atlantic Testament; Typhus; Pacific Task Force; Against the Storm; The Negro Domestic; Japan's Advance Base: The Bonin Islands; The House I Live In
Book by Erik Barnouw; Rinehart, 1945
Subjects: Radio Plays
...by Farrar Rinehart, Inc. Chevigny Hector: Radioman Jack Cooper E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co., Inc., New York...Joseph Gottlieb RADIOMAN JACK COOPER 155 Hector Chevigny...
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The Jack-Roller: A Delinquent Boy's Own Story
Book by Clifford R. Shaw; The University of Chicago Press, 1930
Subjects: Charities--Illinois--Chicago, Child Welfare--Illinois--Chicago, Juvenile Delinquency, Reformatories--Illinois
BEHAVIOR RESEARCH FUND MONOGRAPHS THE JACK-ROLLER THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS...COMMERCIAL PRESS, LIMITED SHANGHAI THE JACK-ROLLER A DELINQUENT BOYS OWN STORY...autobiographies are: I You Cant Win , by Jack Black; 2 Stealing through Life and...
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Airline Deregulation and Laissez-Faire Mythology
Book by Paul Stephen Dempsey, Andrew R. Goetz; Quorum Books, 1992
Subjects: Aeronautics And State--United States, Aeronautics, Commercial--Deregulation--United States, Airlines--Deregulation--United States
...Laissez-Faire Mythology PAUL STEPHEN DEMPSEY ANDREW R. GOETZ QUORUM BOOKS WESTPORT...Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Dempsey, Paul Stephen. Airline deregulation and laissez-faire mythology / Paul Stephen Dempsey and Andrew R. Goetz. p. cm. Includes...
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Red Crow, Warrior Chief
Book by Hugh A. Dempsey; University of Nebraska Press, 1980
Subjects: Kainah Indians--History, Kainah Indians--Kings And Rulers--Biography, Red Crow, Siksika Indians--History, Siksika Indians--Kings And Rulers--Biography
...Design Inc. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Dempsey, Hugh Aylmer 1929- Red Crow, warrior chief. Bibliography...great-grandson of Red Crow. Others include such informants as Jack Low Horn, Jim White Bull, Laurie Plume, Charlie Pantherbone...
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The Light Crust Doughboys Are on the Air: Celebrating Seventy Years of Texas Music
Book by John Mark Dempsey; University of North Texas Press, 2002
Subjects: Country Music Groups--Texas, Light Crust Doughboys (Musical Group), Western Swing (Music)--Texas--History And Criticism
...burgeoning Texas mill- ing business was William C. Burrus, a former teacher and Confeder- ate army officer. He and his son Jack Perry Burrus bought the Farmers Alliance Mill at McKinney in 1890, and changed the name to the Collin County Mill and Elevator...
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Purchasing's Big Moment - after a Merger
Journal article by Timothy L. Chapman, Jack J. Dempsey, Glenn Ramsdell, Trudy E. Bell; The McKinsey Quarterly, 1998
Subjects: Acquisitions and mergers--Management, Purchasing--Management
...by Timothy L. Chapman , Jack J. Dempsey , Glenn Ramsdell , Trudy...poorer. * Timothy L. Chapman, Jack J. Dempsey, Glenn Ramsdell, and Michael R...in McKinseys Cleveland office: Jack Dempsey is a principal in the Minneapolis...
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Purchasing: No Time for Lone Rangers
Journal article by Timothy L. Chapman, Jack J. Dempsey, Glenn Ramsdell, Michael R. Reopel; The McKinsey Quarterly, 1997
Subjects: Corporations--Purchasing, Industrial management--Study and teaching, Outsourcing--Evaluation, Purchasing--Technique
...time for Lone Rangers by Timothy L. Chapman , Jack J. Dempsey , Glenn Ramsdell , Michael R. Reopel The...Chapman is a director in McKinseys Cleveland office; Jack Dempsey is a principal in the Minneapolis office; Glenn Ramsdell...
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A Value Culture for Agriculture: To Become High-Performing Businesses, Agricultural Co-ops Must Move Away from Their Traditional Role as Service Providers
Journal article by Jack J. Dempsey, Ashish A. Kumar, Bernard Loyd, Loula S. Merkel; The McKinsey Quarterly, 2002
Subjects: Agricultural industry--Finance, Agriculture, Cooperative--Finance
...their traditional role as service providers by Jack J. Dempsey , Ashish A. Kumar , Bernard Loyd , Loula S...Thomas Larson (Cenex Harvest States Cooperatives). Jack Dempsey is a director in McKinseys Minneapolis office; Ashish...
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The Secret Life of Factory Service Centers: For a Lucrative New Source of Revenues, Profits, and Market Information, Manufacturers Need Look No Further Than Their Own Repair Shops
Journal article by Whitney L. Alexander, Sandeep Dayal, Jack J. Dempsey, Jonathan D. Vander Ark; The McKinsey Quarterly, 2002
Subjects: Repair services industry--Finance
...by Whitney L. Alexander , Sandeep Dayal , Jack J. Dempsey , Jonathan D. Vander Ark A few miles off Interstate...4, pp. 40-53. Whit Alexander is a consultant and Jack Dempsey is a director in McKinseys Minneapolis office; Sandeep...
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Interventions: toward a New Model of Renaissance Anachronism/response: Historia and Anachronism in Renaissance Art/response: Nihil Sub Sole Novum/response: Time out of Joint/the Authors Reply
Journal article by Alexander Nagel, Christopher S. Wood, Charles Dempsey, Michael Cole, Claire Farago; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 87, 2005
Subjects: Art criticism, Art history, Painting, Theory, Visual artists
...Anachronism in Renaissance Art Charles Dempsey Alexander Nagel and Christopher S. Wood...speak it, would have stuttered.28 Charles Dempsey is the author of numerous articles and...University, Baltimore, Md. 21218-2685, charles.dempsey@jhu.edu. Notes 1. Aby Warburg, The...
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Jack Johnson and the Great White Hope
Magazine article by Lerone Bennett Jr.; Ebony, Vol. 49, April 1994
Subjects: African American boxers--Biography, Boxing--History, Johnson, Jack--Biography
...Johnson picked up the threads of his career and tried, unsuccessfully, to get a match with the new heavyweight champion, Jack Dempsey. In 1926, at age 48, he fought his last serious contest, defeating a ranking young White heavyweight in 15 rounds...
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Only People for Him: In Lionel Trilling's Distinction, Jack Kerouac Is More Than a Writer; He Has Become a "Figure" in Our Culture
Magazine article; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 278, August 1996
Subjects: Jack Kerouac, Writers
...title is drawn from the name Jack Duluoz--Kerouacs preferred pseudonym...review of the novel, by David Dempsey, that took a much different tone. Dempsey acknowledged that the book was...the end, no matter how we read Jack Kerouacs work, we read his life...
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Jack Johnson and the Great White Hope Pt. II
Magazine article by Jr. Lerone Bennett; Ebony, Vol. 60, February 2005
Subjects: Johnson, Jack, Wrestlers--Biography
...Johnson picked up the threads of his career and tried, unsuccessfully, to get a match with the new heavyweight champion, Jack Dempsey. In 1926, at age 48, he fought his last serious contest, defeating a ranking young White heavyweight in 15 rounds. In...
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Visible Man
Magazine article by Greg Tate; The Nation, Vol. 280, February 28, 2005
Subjects: Television programs--Television program reviews, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (Television program)--Television program reviews
...Johnson didnt know when to quit. Even before his release at age 43, he was trying to arrange a fight with then-champion Jack Dempsey, who, like his forebears, decided the trauma of losing the heavyweight belt to a Black man was not one he was going...
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The Bronze Buckaroo Rides Again; Herb Jeffries Is Still Keepin' On
Magazine article by Mary A. Dempsey; American Visions, Vol. 12, August 1997
Subjects: African American motion picture actors and actresses--Biography, African American singers--Biography, Jeffries, Herb--Biography, Western films--History
...had a role in the 1977 movie Portrait of a Hitman (starring Jack Palance), but his western movies were nearly forgotten. Then...Blues" from Harlem Rides the Range. Yippee-ki-yay! Mary A. Dempsey is the assistant city editor of the San Juan Star. Her last...
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Tunney Saved by Long Count; Mistake Costs Dempsey Crown
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 18, 2006
Subjects: Barry, Dave, Dempsey, Jack
...champion Gene Tunney and the dethroned Jack Dempsey staged their rematch before more...licked, his answer was the same: "Jack Dempsey was the greatest fighter who ever...nobody gave you a chance of beating Jack Dempsey." The younger Tunney, a Democrat...
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Voice of Scotland; UNION JACK IS NOT ALL RIGHT
Newspaper article by Charles Duncan; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), September 2, 1996
Subjects: Dempsey, Jack
...But I felt I must take issue on his comments about Jack Dempsey avoiding Jack Johnson. Johnson lost his title to Jess Willard in 1915 when he was past his prime. Dempsey won his title in 1919, beating the same Willard in...
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Charlie Catchpole: SPORT ON TV
Newspaper article by Charlie Catchpole; The Mirror (London, England), February 5, 2000
Subjects: British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC. Sky Box Office, Dempsey, Jack
...ON TV. by Charlie Catchpole Dempsey is floored by Eubank blowWHATS the difference between Jack Dempsey and Paul Dempsey? Jack Dempsey didnt pull his punches. As chief cheerleader for Skys coverage of the Tyson-Francis fiasco (I...
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Radio Was a Knockout in '21
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 3, 2006
Subjects: Dempsey, Jack
...heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey knocked out French...especially since Dempsey would not fight black...flamboyant behavior of Jack Johnson, the champion...next time he saw Dempsey, he told him, "When...you in your corner, Jack, you resembled a...
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Kahn Book Has Plenty of Punch
Newspaper article by Dick Heller; The Washington Times, November 28, 1999
Subjects: Dempsey, Jack
...Sports, or perhaps any other, was Jack Dempsey. Three-quarters of a century later...new book, "A Flame of Pure Fire: Jack Dempsey and the Roaring 20s" (Harcourt...The door opened. Behind it stood Jack Dempsey. Sorry, wrong number. But Roger...
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encyclopedia articles on: Dempsey Jack  - 3 results

 
 
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Dempsey, Jack
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
DEMPSEY, JACK (William Harrison Dempsey), 1895 1983, American boxer, b. Manassa, Colo. Dempsey, called the "Manassa Mauler," emerged from fights on saloon floors near mining camps to become (1919) the worlds heavyweight champion and one of the...
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Tunney, Gene
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...counterpuncher. In 1926, he defeated Jack Dempsey in a 10-round decision in Philadelphia...performance in a return bout with Dempsey; the decision was the subject of...knocked down in the seventh round and Dempsey at first failed to move to a neutral...
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Boxing
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...1920s and 30s. Heavyweight (over 190 lb/86.3 kg) champions Jack Dempsey (1919 26) and Joe Louis (1937 49) were national heroes...Liebling, The Sweet Science (1956); R. Roberts, Papa Jack (1983); E. Gorn, The Manly Art (1986); J. Sammons...


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