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  • They Were Champion Boxers Once, and Restauranteurs Too

    They Were Champion Boxers Once, and Restauranteurs Too

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    Jack Dempsey and Sugar Ray Robinson were champion boxers — Dempsey as a heavyweight and Robinson as a middleweight and welterweight. While they fought in different eras of “the sweet science,” their post-fighting paths led them to New York City and the restaurant business.

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Donald T. Matter, Jr.
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Mary Jane Colter was not part of the conceptualization that Fred Harvey put on early 20th century travel to the American southwest, however her work was easily recognized and as early as the 1920s critics were writing, “Colter’s work is a vigorous modern statement, far ahead of the times.”

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