Among the many, many endeavors in his lengthy and active life, George Bernard Shaw wrote plays, more than 60 of them, the most famous being “Man and Superman” “Saint Joan” and “Pygmalion,” which ...

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In the annals of boxing’s greatest heavyweight champions, two names often enter the conversation: Jack Dempsey and Gene Tunney. They each had Irish backgrounds, were ring-savvy, had real punching ...

A pair of 84-year-old boxing gloves — two lumps of orangey leather, scarcely bigger than ski mittens, newly arrived but not yet on display at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History — ...

Editor’s Note: This is third and final segment of a three-part series that was published in The Leader-Herald Weekender sports section. With Jack Dempsey now retired from professional boxing, a new ...

FRANKFURT — Boxing must come under federal control, and its administrator must not be a former boxer, manager or promoter, former world heavyweight champion Gene Tunney advocated Friday. "There ...

T he golden age of sports mined a rich vein of glittering heroes. There was Babe Ruth, the Sultan of Swat; Red Grange, the Galloping Ghost; Bill Tilden in tennis; and Bobby Jones on the links. And ...

Not many Stamfordites are aware that Joe Lieberman is not the only U.S. senator who grew up in Stamford. The other one? John Tunney, the middle of three sons of the former heavyweight champion, Gene ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. A note accompanying the glove reads: ...