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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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Eleanor “Ellie” McCrackin
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The house at 54 Turner Street is better known by an 1851 novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Scholars love the book; tourists love the house. Which are you?

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